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The team over at Avoka Technologies has created a dynamic PDF for children to fill out and send to Santa. The Santa Delivery Request Form is a PDF document made with LiveCycle Designer that can be filled in using Adobe Reader 7 or higher. Check it out, there's lots of hidden items in the form that you can find, depending on the items that you select.
JP Terry from SmartDoc Technologies sent me a Christmas card that I received today. If you're familiar with LiveCycle, you're going to like this.
LiveCycle could do wonders for Santa... Rather than the simple pen and paper method we have now, kids everywhere could be filling in their dynamic PDF Christmas lists, and then submitting them to Santa's LiveCycle installation, where LiveCycle Workflow could interface with the elves' SAP system, possibly calling into web services from Amazon and others to order the goods. The addition of LiveCycle Policy Server could ensure the integrety of the wishlists, so others wouldn't be able to "request" gifts for others - we wouldn't want someone to end up with a lump of coal now.
There's a post in the LiveCycle Google Group from a company that is looking to implement a solution with Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server, and is looking for some Java (LiveCycle) developers. "I'm looking for developers capable to implement a LiveCycle Policy Server solution for the services my company provides. Developers can be located in NY, Paris or Israel. Can anybody help to find a team?" If you're interested in developing solutions with Adobe LiveCycle technologies, then you should join the LiveCycle Google Group.
There is certainly a ton of new interest around LiveCycle these days. 2 of the 6 MAX winners were LiveCycle solutions, there's a new LiveCycle community site, there's new content weekly on the Adobe LiveCycle developer center, and over 55 members in the Adobe LiveCycle Google Group.
With release 7.2 of LiveCycle, the install-config documentation is now hosted on the Adobe website at http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/livecycle . The product install binaries themselves only contain PDF files that point to the online location of the full document.
As a result of this change, versioning has become an issue, especially when discussing install-config documentation so that everybody is on the same page!
The version info is provided on page 2, at the top left. It will say something like as follows:
© 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved.
Adobe® LiveCycle™ 7.2 Installing and Configuring LiveCycle for JBoss® for Microsoft® Windows® and Linux®
Edition 1.2, November 2006
The key information is the Edition and the Date, which in this case is 1.2, Nov 2006.
This only applies to the install-config guides. API reference guides, developer guides, javadocs and other documentation are still shipped with the product binaries.