LiveCycle Doc team

You may have missed it during the MAX 2009 conference, among all of the announcements, but Adobe has publicly announced a new product that allows users to create composite Rich Internet Applications (RIAs).

That's the official line, but from someone on the inside let me tell you its a pretty cool product. Imagine being able to translate your knowledge of Flex and JavaScript directly into creating reusable mini-applications, or tiles, that can be shared across multiple RIAs with ease. The tiles provide the "composite" in composite RIA, meaning a single set of tiles can translate into myriad combinations of final applications. We supply the framework, you supply the creativity.

What does all of this have to do with LiveCycle ES2? Well, the server-side components of LiveCycle Mosaic ES2 get added to a LiveCycle ES2 server, which provides the hosting environment. You also utilize the User Management functionality of LiveCycle ES2 to define users and roles. To end users however, it's as easy as going to a URL (using the web client) or launching an AIR application (through the desktop client) and then immediately interacting with the applications you've created.

Want to learn more, check out the LiveCycle Mosaic ES2 product web site here: www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/mosaic/. There's also a data sheet available at that link that provides more detailed examination of the features.

Have a good day!

Posted by Alex Mitchell at 1:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I had a great time at Adobe MAX 2009. I talked to many users of LiveCycle ES and got some great feedback about the documentation. I don't mean you all love our docs, but I mean you provided some great insights into how we can improve. (But some of you do apparently love our docs!)

Some of the things you asked for:

• More examples


• PDF versions of Help


• More access points to Help via F1


• Make it easier to find information on Adobe.com

These issues are all on our radar.

For one, we are working on mining the Adobe.com LiveCycle ES forums for examples. I also hope for more suggestions from you on our LiveDocs pages.

Also, take a look at the Beta version of the Community Help AIR application. Let us know what you think. This new tool makes all the information that you need available from one location, and includes 'Livedocs' commenting and other easy ways to keep in touch with the user community. This is only implemented for a few Adobe products right now. Would you like to see it used for LiveCycle?

Posted by Scott Brodersen at 2:59 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)