The Future of LiveCycle

Posted on January 20, 2012 by arun

Since Adobe announced its increased focus on Digital Marketing and Digital Media, the LiveCycle team has met with dozens of customers and partners to discuss the future of LiveCycle.   They are all passionate about our technology and the solutions we provide and have been excited when we have shared our plans with them.  I’d like to share those plans more broadly with you.

To start with, we remain committed to creating further innovations within the LiveCycle product line and supporting LiveCycle customers.  We have a large install base of customers using LiveCycle for Business Process Management, Forms, Security, and Document Generation based applications and solutions that are mission critical to their business.  Adobe fully intends to continue to support, maintain, and enhance the products that they are using.

There are  a number of priority areas that we will make investments in going forward.  The areas which we see as the core offering for LiveCycle ES and are prioritizing our engineering investment around are:

  • Modules: Reader Extensions, Forms, Output, Digital Signatures, Rights Management, Process Management, PDF Generation
  • Tools: Workbench, Designer
  • Solutions: Correspondence Management
  • ECM Connectors: SharePoint, IBM Filenet, Documentum
  • Advanced Offerings: Data Services

We’ve already begun to deliver on our commitment to invest and innovate.  In December, we shipped a service pack for our August 2011 release and also shipped a new feature-packed version of LiveCycle Data Services for Java EE.  Next on our agenda, we will release ECM connector enhancements and updates in the first quarter of 2012.  Looking forward to the second half of 2012, my team is already hard at work on the next version of LiveCycle ES that will include many product feature enhancements.  Keep an eye on the product blogs and forums to see how they will be leveraging HTML across LiveCycle as they start ramping up for prerelease drops.

As we mentioned in an earlier post, Adobe will have a direct selling relationship within select markets like government and financial services.  Additionally, we will leverage our long-standing partner community to represent LiveCycle across all markets.

I hope this helps you understand the future of LiveCycle and I look forward to sharing more information about our 2012 release as the year progresses.

Arun Anantharaman

Vice President and General Manager

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Sanity Checks for CQ5 Installations

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Feike Visser

In this blogpost I listed some basic checks you can do after you have done a (production) installation of CQ5(.4). The checks can mostly be done via the browser, and will give you very quickly an rough idea whether you are almost done, or still has to start.

1. Admin screens

The following urls should not be accessible:

http://yourwebsite/system/console

http://yourwebsite/system/sling/cqform/defaultlogin.html

http://yourwebsite/crx/de/index.jsp

If these pages are accessible, then you have to revisit the security settings mentioned in this document :

http://dev.day.com/docs/en/cq/current/deploying/security_checklist.html#Restrict%20Access%20via%20the%20Dispatcher

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How to Fix com.adobe.idp.scheduler.SchedulerException: Failure Occurred During Job Recovery

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Santosh Tatke

Problem Scenario:

LiveCycle uses Quartz scheduler. Typical use case is when “watched folder” endpoint related schedules get translated as quartz triggers. Quartz takes care of executing the trigger based on frequency and updates a table with the latest execution count.

We ran into a production scenario where customer was running LiveCycle 8213 against Oracle 10g db and one fine day their weblogic servers wouldn’t start.

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LiveCycle Data Services for Java EE 4.6 now available

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Juergen Hauser

Here’s another announcement! LiveCycle Data Services version 4.6 is now generally available. It is the latest update to the JEE or LiveCycle version of Data Services and it is a feature-rich major release, including expanded support for mobile applications (HTML5/JavaScript, native iOS and Java/Google Android), adds an SAP Connector, introduces managed remoting, and enhancements to model driven development and the offline synchronization framework.

For more information check out the following two sites:

Product overview on Adobe.com: http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/dataservices/

LiveCycle Developer Center on the Adobe Developer Connection: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/dataservices.html

For existing customers with maintenance and support contracts, the Data Services 4.6 release along with Flash Builder 4.6 has been automatically pushed into your Licence Web Site (LWS) account. This includes ADEP/LiveCycle V10 customers that have licence rights to Data Services.

Juergen Hauser – Sr. Product Manager – LiveCycle Data Services

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ADEP/LiveCycle v10 SP1 Now Available

Posted on December 12, 2011 by ndavies

I’m pleased to announce that the first service pack for ADEP/LiveCycle v10 is now available. It is made up of two parts; Document Services SP1 for the LiveCycle Modules (Forms, Output, Reader Extensions, Process management …) and Experience Services SP1 (update to Experience Services Quick Start containing Mosaic and Experience Services based Data Services).

The service pack extends support to Flash Builder 4.6 which has been made available to all customers with ADEP/LiveCycle v10 in their Adobe Licence Web Site (LWS) accounts.

The Document Services SP1 is available at this link. An Adobe ID is required to access the page. The Experience Services SP1 will be available on Package Share in mid December 2011, the link above will be updated when it is available.

Neal Davies – Sr. Product Manager – LiveCycle

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Using the i18n Translator

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Feike Visser

This week a colleague of mine showed me the default i18n translation functionality of CQ5.4 which I wasn’t aware of. And I don’t want to keep this one for myself.

It is available via this url : http://localhost:4502/libs/cq/i18n/translator.html (change host and port to your own needs).

Here’s an example of the UI that is presented with the translator:

You have a lot of options available around searching, exporting, importing etc.

Also, with the list-view Administrators can easily see what content is not yet translated.

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Beyond String – @TypeHint to the Rescue

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Rob In der Maur

Based on some questions from a partner I had to investigate whether it was possible to store values for widgets you define as part of your CQ5 custom component as something else than String. Guess what…. it’s possible (not that I was surprised…).

Storing JCR content with a specific type is possible using the @TypeHint property, as is documented as part of the Apache SlingPostServlet (more specifically in the section on Controlling Content Updates with @ Suffixes).

However, how can @TypeHint be ‘reused’ such that also the properties of a custom component can be saved as something else than String? With some help of engineering, follows a tutorial…

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Dynamic Routing of “Thank You” Pages

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Feike Visser

In CQ you have the form functionality available that allows you to create a form on a page, for each form you can specify a “thank you” page that will be displayed when the form is submitted.

In this blogpost I will explain how you conditionally can route to different thank you pages depending on the values entered by the user.

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LiveCycle Business Update

Posted on November 17, 2011 by dwelch

On November 9th Adobe announced our focus on Digital Marketing and Digital Media.   In a recent blog post, our CEO Shantanu Narayen described Adobe’s transformation and plan to focus in these two areas.  I would like to provide some additional color to that message and what it means for LiveCycle, Adobe’s enterprise business and our customers. 

The Adobe LiveCycle business will continue to pursue enhancements and new customers in select verticals such as government and financial services.  We will continue to support customers in all verticals.

We will maintain our investment in the product line in upcoming releases and we will continue to provide bug fixes, security updates, and support for new versions of operating systems, application servers, databases and browsers. 

Over the years, we have built a large portfolio of LiveCycle customers and a large partner network.  The LiveCycle team looks forward to continuing to support our customers.  

Dave Welch

Senior Director LiveCycle

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Protocol to Configure a Basic “Shared-Nothing” Experience Server Cluster

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Jayan Kandathil

In the ADEP release, the Experience Server “Quickstarts” come with a Java Content Repository (JCR) called CRX. This is horizontally scalable by clustering multiple nodes and putting a load balancer in the front.

TERMINOLOGY
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You can have a farm of multiple CRX nodes that are unaware of one another (not clustered, but only load-balanced). Adobe documentation calls this “Read-Only Clustering” but this is not really clustering in the traditional sense.

You can also have “true” clustering. It can be of three different types:

1) Shared Journal + Shared Data Store

2) Shared Data Store only (see Steve Forrest’s blog posts 1 and 2 on how to configure this)

3) Shared Nothing

#1 and #2 requires that you set up a network share using NFS, SAMBA or CIFS.

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