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January 17, 2007
Learn more about Flex and ColdFusion in Ottawa
Ben Forta, who is the guy when it comes to ColdFusion, will be presenting at the Adobe office in Ottawa on Flex and ColdFusion. The event is scheduled for February 6th, from 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon. Registration is free. This invitation has more details on the event. The event is being sponsored by the New Toronto Group.
No word on whether they're changing their name to the New Ottawa Group. :)
October 03, 2006
Adobe XPAAJ SDK updated to include ColdFusion samples
Great news for all you ColdFusion developers. We have added ColdFusion samples to the XPAAJ SDK. The work was done by Sterling Ledet, who runs a Adobe training centers across the United States. Check out his company's site if you're interested in hands-on training for Adobe products, including historical Macromedia products.
What's XPAAJ? From the developer center page, "its a Java API that helps Java
developers to build applications that work with PDF documents and
forms. It can extract data from a PDF file programmatically and combine
XML data with blank PDF forms. You can incorporate XPAAJ into
standalone Java applications or deploy it into either a Web container
or an application server container." We need to add the ColdFusion connection in there now.
Here's the updated .zip file that includes the CFM samples and here's the developer center page that outlines what's included in the .zip file.
Ben Forta has done some preliminary work with XPAAJ as well, you should check out his blog entry on XPAAJ here.
Duane Nickull has XPAAJ working on a MacBook Pro, if you're interested in running XPAAJ on an Intel Mac.
Be aware that in order to use XPAAJ, you need to have an enterprise license of ColdFusion, Flex Data Services or Adobe LiveCycle. Be sure to read the EULA before downloading the software.
technorati tags:adobe, livecycle, xpaaj, coldfusion
July 27, 2006
Ben Forta creates ColdFusion component for XPAAJ
Ben Forta has created a ColdFusion component that allows CF developers to easily use the XPAAJ library that we released last week. The component is available for download from Ben's website right now, and his blog post has a small sample that shows how to use it.
Once you've got the data in a PDF document, the LiveCycle software becomes more useful to you. If you want to protect that PDF document, you can use LiveCycle Document Security. If you want to track who can open that PDF document, you can use LiveCycle Policy Server. If you want to route that document to others in your organization, you can use LiveCycle Workflow.
technorati tags:coldfusion, xpaaj, adobe, pdf, livecycle
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July 18, 2006
Download XPAAJ without AEDP membership
I'm happy to announce that today we've opened up access to the XPAAJ (XML PDF Access APIs for Java) library. You no longer need to be a member of the Adobe Enterprise Developer Program to download XPAAJ. You can download XPAAJ simply by creating an Adobe ID, which you already have if you've downloaded something from Adobe.
XPAAJ allows you to pre-populate and extract form data from Adobe PDF forms (created with LiveCycle Designer), using Java code. The XPAAJ download includes a getting started guide and a developer guide to help you build out Java applications.
A few things to note in the license for XPAAJ: (see section 2. LICENSE in the software license agreement):
- You can use the software if you own a copy of Adobe Enterprise software (defined as commercially available versions of Adobe software branded as LiveCycle, ColdFusion or Flex), and you may only use it for your own internal business purpose. OR
- You can use the software to develop programs to extract data from PDF files delivered to you from a licensed copy of LiveCycle Forms or Reader Extensions.
Ben Forta should have some good news for ColdFusion developers in the near future.
technorati tags:xpaaj, livecycle, adobe, coldfusion, java, pdf
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March 01, 2006
Combining Adobe LiveCycle and Adobe ColdFusion
Yesterday we posted an interview with Allen Levine, to the LiveCycle Developer Center. In it, we talk to Allen about his work on integrating Adobe LiveCycle software with Adobe ColdFusion. There's also some sample files available that show how to call Adobe LiveCycle using ColdFusion components.
If you're unfamiliar with LiveCycle, then a Breeze presentation that I gave a few weeks ago may be of interest to you. You can get started with LiveCycle by joining the Adobe Enterprise Developer Program, at a cost of $1495 per year. Membership in that program includes 1 year of unlimited email support for developers, as well as access to the LiveCycle software.