Legal
The views expressed in this blog are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
Search
July 20, 2006
Why Flex developers should love XPAAJ
As I posted the other day, we recently opened up access to the XPAAJ library to anyone, without requiring a membership to the Adobe Enterprise Developer Program. We're working on creating tutorials on how to get started with XPAAJ, and why its so useful to developers. Here's the first XPAAJ tutorial that we're working on, please provide comments on it in this blog.
Flex developers should love XPAAJ, because it allows you to take the data from your Flex application and put it into a document of record. Create a sweet looking application in Flex, allowing the user to enter and manipulate data online. When its time to take that information offline, or provide them with a document of record for their data, use XPAAJ to populate a dynamic PDF form (that you created with LiveCycle Designer - free trial here) that contains all their information. Users can then interact with that document through Adobe Reader, without having to be connected online.
At that point, you can do all sorts of things with the PDF document. Want to control who can open or print it? Use LiveCycle Policy Server. Want to allow them to comment on the document with Adobe Reader? Use LiveCycle Reader Extensions. Want to allow them to add their digital signatures to the document? Use LiveCycle Document Security. Need an overview of all the LiveCycle products? Watch my Adobe developer week presentation.
Want to try LiveCycle? Get the LiveCycle Toolbox. Want access to the LiveCycle Toolbox, without an Adobe Enterprise Developer Program membership? Email me by commenting in this blog.
technorati tags:livecycle, xpaaj, flex, pdf, adobe
Blogged with Flock
Comments
Great article. I wonder if you could help me with a XPAAJ challenge that I am having.
I want to be able to traverse through a directory and find individual XML Data files and import them into an empty PDF and save each PDF as separate file with the name of the file coming from a value in the XML (e.g. Surname).
Is this possible.
I have been using the XPAAJ PDFImportData.java that came with the XPAAJ SDK but could not get it to work.
Thank you for signing in, You may now comment. (Sign Out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)