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December 7, 2006
Acrobat / Reader 8.0 REST Web Service support
Acrobat / Reader 8.0 has improved support for JavaScript networking which makes it easy to communicate with XML web services when combined with new support for XML processing. SOAP Web Services have been supported since Acrobat / Reader 6.0 however support for HTTP networking makes it possible to develop clients for a wider array of protocols - for example WebDAV, the Atom Publishing Protocol and other types of RESTive services like the Approver.com API. ECMAScript for XML (E4X) greatly simplifies producing and consuming XML messages which is really useful when interacting with XMLweb services.
Many of the collaboration workflows in Acrobat (for example the Review Initiation wizards) are developed in JavaScript because it's a more rapid development environment. As a result, we are also a customer of the JavaScript APIs that we add and the new Net.HTTP object is a good example of this.