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Charles is a shareware tool that can be used to debug connectivity and other issues with LiveCycle Workspace. A Firefox plugin is also available. Evaluation version is free for 30 days.

Once installed and configured, it will give you very detailed information on the requests being sent by the browser to the LiveCycle server as well as the responses from the LiveCycle server back to the browser. It is supported on Windows, MacOS and Linux. It also has a 64-bit version.

AMF3 is supported natively, with an AMF tab that displays the contents of AMF3 messages in a readable hierarchical format.

It is essentially a Java proxy application that needs a JRE to be installed (the JAVA_HOME environment variable needs to be set).

Now available on Adobe Labs are the public beta releases of Adobe Flash Builder 4 (formerly Flex Builder), Adobe Flash Catalyst and the Flex 4 Framework. Flash Builder 4 is the next evolution of Flex Builder, and includes a long list of feature improvements, new data-centric development features, and a new design-develop workflow with Flash Catalyst. Flash Catalyst, also now available in public beta, is a new interaction design tool for rapidly building application user interfaces without coding. Both Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst are based on the updated Flex 4 framework, also available for beta download.

Visit Adobe Labs to find out more and to download the installers.

"Hub" is a new client application that connects your users desktops to LiveCycle ES services giving them the ability to do things like generating PDFs or assembling PDF packages. It's also a great example of how to write an AIR application that connects to custom services so you can start writing your own "Dashboard".

From the downloads page you can download both the installer as well as the project source code and for a general overview check out the Hub home page now on Adobe labs.

If you have not heard, AIR has now made it's way from Labs to the production world.

For all the details on AIR, visit the product website here: http://www.adobe.com/products/air/. To see what some of our enterprise customers are already doing with AIR, visit the showcase at http://www.adobe.com/products/air/showcase/. And lastly, to get some ideas on how you may be able to use AIR, visit the marketplace at http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=productHome&exc=24&loc=en_us for some great examples.

Aside from the AIR resources, one link that you may find very useful when creating your LiveCycle-integrated AIR applications, is the Flex 3 Style Explorer that you will find here: http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex3StyleExplorer.html#. This will easily enable you to move away from the standard themes and not have everyone immediately recognize that you wrote your AIR application using Flex.

Adobe® AIR™ beta 3 was released early this morning. So to trump my last entry, download Beta 3. The same links posted previously will take you to the new release: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/.

If you've been experimenting with LiveCycle and AIR integration, be sure to upgrade to AIR Beta 2 as you will find that AIR beta 1 is now expired.

For the latest downloads and news on AIR, please go to http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/ and to see what others have already done with the technology, check out the showcase at http://labs.adobe.com/showcase/air/.