Adobe LiveCycle Data Services

Hi,

Its very pleasure to share the new technology adapted with Adobe flex. Adobe has introduced the Data service called Adove LifeCycle for flex & AJax. LiveCycle Data Services ES is the next generation of Flex Data Services. The name change reflects an important expansion in the use of these valuable services. In addition to serving the needs of both Flex and Ajax developers, LiveCycle Data Services ES will provide enhanced integration with Adobe’s other LiveCycle server products for document and process management, enabling business to create new ways to engage and reach customers. In addition to the existing features of data services, this release focuses on a few key themes:

• Integrating and adding value to LiveCycle
• Fit and Finish of Data Services 2
• Preparing for the future with Apollo and collaboration
• Making Data Services more approachable

In support of these themes we have a powerful set of new capabilities including:

• A new Flex SDK, which includes updates to the client-side Web Services library.
• Server-side PDF generation capabilities for RIA applications generates properly formatted PDF documents that include graphical assets from Flex applications, such as graphs and charts.
• The Runtime configuration feature provides Server APIs to programmatically create and modify Services, Destinations, and Adapters, and as a result it eliminates the need for the compile-time dependency between clients and the server configuration.
  
• Support for WSRP portal deployment of Flex applications, which makes it easy for developers to deploy a Flex application as a portlet in a portal server without having to do any portal specific programming.
• Per Client Messaging quality of service (QoS) allowing Flex clients to select custom data access policies for real- time data.
• Ajax Data Services, enabling Ajax applications to take advantage of the data management and messaging capabilities available in Data Services.
• The Flex-Ajax Bridge (FABridge), which is a small library that can be inserted into a Flex application, a Flex component, or even an empty SWF file to expose it to scripting in the browser without any additional coding.
• Improved off-line message queuing, supporting future Apollo development, which allows Flex applications using Data Services to queue outbound messages locally when the client is offline and manage exactly what is sent to the server upon reconnect.
• Groundwork for future Apollo application support, including a local data cache that enables developers to cache client data requests and data changes to the local file system for later retrieval when an application resumes.
• RTMP tunneling (RTMPT) that allows the use of the RTMP protocol in Data Services applications to traverse firewalls and proxies that currently prevent direct RTMP client connections to the server.
• A new SQL adaptor, which dramatically simplifies the development of applications using Data Management Services without having to write any server-side Java code.
• A new JSP Tag Library that enables MXML and ActionScript code to be embedded into a JSP page providing an easier entry for J2EE developers to Flex programming.
• Several important enhancements to core Data Services performance and scalability.

Hope it will be very useful for you.

thanks

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