Our very own Christoph Rooms has developed a Livecycle ES custom component for Share. With this integration via Share APIs, users can easily generate a PDF file, upload it to Share's content library, then finally share it... cool stuff!
Christoph has made the component and source available -- check it out on his blog:
So, a random San Francisco rainstorm this morning soaked me to the bone on my 15 minute walk in from work. Of course, as luck would have it, I was scheduled to do a Connect Webinar on Cocomo the minute I got into the office. So, coffee clutched in hand, shivering, with soaking shoes and pants, I ended up giving a one hour, reasonably in depth lecture on the principles of what we're doing here, including a bunch of highly-coveted code samples. Since some crazy guy at Adobe made all Connect Meetings recordable (and wouldn't it be great if you could record and play back this sort of stuff inside your own apps?), the presentation is now online for all to mock me :
Wet And Miserable Cocomo Presentation
(BTW, am I the only one who gets shivers when they see the old Breeze logo? Yeah, I'm prolly feverish).
A couple more libraries for Share API enthusiasts:
First the long awaited AS3 library (Flex 3 Beta 2 required, which is currently available on Adobe Labs)... sorry it took us so long, but here it is in all its glory. The ZIP also includes the AIR project file which we demoed at our MAX sessions. Feel free to use, modify and fix any mistakes we may have made.
Furthermore, Hidyuki Kato has started a Ruby library for Share's REST APIs. Really cool stuff, and exciting to see the community embrace our services!
Cool news to report: ColdFusion guru Raymond Camden has released the first version of his Share API wrapper! With a few simple tags, you can now integrate Share functionality into your ColdFusion apps. It's great to see you developers building upon our platform so quickly and "Sharing" your code with the community.
I hope you guys are having fun playing with our APIs. To make things a bit easier, here is a Java library that you can use that takes care of all the nasty authentication and XML formatting bits. It could also be of use as reference for those of you developing libraries in other languages. Consider it alpha code, and feel free to fix any errors you might come across.
There are a few dependencies: commons httpclient, logging, codec, and json.jar.
Coming soon, the ActionScript library. But remember, this is all REST-based, so don't let the unavailability of a library get in your way. Can't wait to see what you guys come up with!
So, we announced our “Share” beta service and APIs, and sneaked our “Cocomo” technology at the Day 2 keynote. Both were received very well, especially when our Flash preview feature of Share was described as “FlashPaper on steroids.”
This was then followed by an awesome, jam-packed Day 2 session with 78 attendees -- standing room only. Based on some impromptu polls, it seemed that the high attendance was largely attributed to our keynote. Anyway, thank you all for those who participated and made it an awesome, interactive discussion.
Sorry for those who weren’t able to make it to MAX in Chicago or missed the session, but we promise to keep you informed via our blog. For now, I’ve embedded our presentation below (using Share) for folks to read up.
I just go back from MAX, and was blown away by the quality work going on all around, both outside and inside the company. Finally getting to sit down with the Buzzword folks was a huge highlight, as was seeing Fang's disembodied head on a 50 foot screen.
It was also a privilege to be allowed on stage for the day 2 keynote. Is there any doubt that Mr Ted Patrick is some kind of super-being? No? Good, there shouldn't be. Watching the keynote come together for 4 days backstage (from saturday morning to tueday night) was a very surreal experience; the crew (dozens and dozens of people, from Makeup to sound to lighting to IT to catering to security to the guys in the cherry-picker adjusting the screens) really deserve high praise for keeping everything running as well as it did.
So, it seems like people are interested in what we're up to - folks were sitting on the floor in our session later that day; thanks to everyone who came out. Now that I'm allowed to talk about the CoCoMo project (I'm really not sure at what point we started InTerCappIng the name, but.. too late now?), I think I will.
But first, a taste of what some others (with, possibly, more influence than I) are saying about the project, as well as other new Adobe initiatives :
Link 1 (Shantanu Narayen)
Link 2 (Kevin Lynch)
Stay tuned... More to come.
