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September 01, 2005
Plug Designer into your favourite IDE
A very useful download was posted to the LiveCycle Developer Center the other day that I thought I should highlight. If you're doing LiveCycle development, specifically with LiveCycle Designer, you'll be happy to know that we've created 3 plug-ins for popular IDEs that will help you get your job done quicker.
The first plugin is for Rational Application Developer. It has been tested against RAD 6.0.0 and also works for RSA 6.0.0, and RWD 6.0.0.
The second plugin is for Eclipse. The plugin should work for version 3.0 and 3.1 of Eclipse.
And finally, the good people over at Ensemble Systems have created a LiveCycle Designer plugin for Visual Studio .NET.
The first two are available free of charge, the last one you'll need to buy from Ensemble, though they do have a free 30 day trial avialable. [Updated: With the launch of the developer program, we've now made these plugins available to members of the Enterprise Developer Program only.]
So, no matter which of those three IDEs you're using, you won't have to switch from Designer and back again. We'll do our best to continue to help build useful tools like this for enterprise developers.
Here are the links for downloading:
1. You can get the .zip files for the Eclipse and Rational plugin from the LiveCycle Designer Developer Center.
2. Visual Studio .NET Plugin (must buy from Ensemble)
I'm watching comments here, so post back if you have any problems with any of the plugins.
Comments
How can we access the LiveCycle Designer SDK?
I can't get the plugin installed for Eclipse 3.1 - is there an updated version?
Yossi:
There is currently no LiveCycle Designer SDK.
Howard:
I believe there's a problem with the plugin on Adobe.com. I've sent you the latest version, and I'll ask to get the plugin on adobe.com updated to the latest version.
Thanks for the info.
Mike
Can you send me that Eclipse 3.x plugin or make available on Internet somewhere? Can I also know the change that you did to make it work for 3.1??
Thanks,
Parth:
The plugin is available at http://partners.adobe.com/developer/en/livecycle/Designer_Plugin_Eclipse_3_x.zip
You need to be a member of the Adobe Enterprise Developer Program to have access to that plugin.
I'm not sure if I can share the changes that were made to get it working with 3.1. I'll talk to the team that made those changes and reply back to you.
Mike
Hey, Mike. Any chance the Eclipse plugin will be made more generally available? It's a bit "old school" Adobe to seal access to it off from the developer community. Let's adopt the Macromedia style and make it all available!
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