LiveCycle Gets Some Rich Internet Applicaiton Glitter

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LiveCycleWe issued a press release today about LiveCycle Enterprise Suite which will integrate with Flex and LiveCycle Data Services. For RIA developers, this probably isn’t going to be a big deal. You’ll have a new place to deploy your skills, but other than that, you probably won’t be affected. But from a technology standpoint, the announcement is kind of cool.

LiveCycle serves up PDF forms to outside sources, and it will take care of all the data management for you through the submit process and handle the entire document workflow, which is great for organizations that use a lot of forms. With this update, we’re seeing the first iteration of a blend between Flash and PDF. You can create Flex/Flash front ends for your applications and then hook in PDF for actual document viewing or printing. JD has a pretty good explanation, but essentially you can make your PDF-based forms more rich and interactive with Flex, but then maintain the document integrity with the PDF core.

It’s kind of a neat blend of the platform and I’ll be curious to see what comes of it. Especially with licenses starting at $100,000.00. That’s a lot of clams.
[tags]Flex, LiveCycle Enterprise, Flash[/tags]

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  • http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster Steven Webster

    Hey Ryan — so I deliver Rich Internet Applications and this is a huge deal; we’ve been waiting months for this release. I think it depends on the kind of Rich Internet Applications you’re developing – it might not be a big deal of you’re creating consumer RIA, but if you’re delivering solutions in financial services, government, life sciences, manufacturing – or other enterprise environments – we just got a whole new set of toys to play with. I’ve blogged over at http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/

  • http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com Ryan Stewart

    Right on Steven, thanks very much for the insight. Very good stuff and I stand corrected :)

  • http://afpwebworks.com Mike Kear

    Dont get too excited. Live Cycle is a closed shop, with new entrants to this market actively discouraged by Adobe. The companies who were selling it before Adobe bought it have convinced Adobe that no one else would be able to sell it.

    The only way you can be involved with Live Cycle now is to work through one of your competitors who are already accredited to sell Live Cycle.

    It matters not how much you know about workflow and forms and related technologies – if you arent already selling and supporting Live Cycle they wont let you in unless you put all your business through one of the existing companies – your competitor.

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