…Things have changed. First of all I changed roles. As you can see from the top of this blog, I moved into a pre-sales, solution consulting role in order to enable our partners in the region (Benelux, Nordics, Germany, Austria, Switzerland) on Adobe’s enterprise products. On top of that Adobe has made some recent changes with respect to their enterprise strategy (which is explained in more detail on the Adobe Enterprise Blog).

In line with the title of this blog post I will now focus in my daily job as well in this blog on our Digital Marketing products: CQ5 and the Omniture suite of products. So expect a revitalization of this blog with some different content than what you would expect from past articles, but please still reach out in case you do have questions on ADEP, LiveCycle, Flex, etc. If I cannot answer these right away, I am sure I will find someone who can.

As a token of the revitalization of my blogging efforts, I just refer to an article I published recently on the Adobe Enterprise Blog (no need to duplicate efforts here, right?). Happy reading and blog to you soon…

1. Install LiveCycle ES2 JBoss Turnkey on your environment. Visit the Adobe prerelease site in case you don’t have the prerelease version
2. Install Acrobat 9.x on your environment
3. Install Eclipse (the ‘Ganymede’ version)
4. Install MySQL 5.x Tools (note that the MySQL database server itself comes with the LiveCycle ES prerelease)
5. Install Baretail in case you want to monitor your log files

After you have installed all required software, take the LabFiles.zip and unzip the contents to your C:\ drive. You will see a MAX09L34 folder containing all the required lab files and a medicalcheck.sql file that you can use within MySQL Browser (part of the MySQL Tools) to create the database used in the lab.Finally, you need the the LiveCycle ES for Service Orchestration Lab Instructions.pdf.Warning: you might run into issues one way or another; there is no way we can control the lab environment as we did for MAX 2009. But in case you’re stuck, let me know and I will try to help you out.

Bear with me and I will provide more details in the upcoming days.

I will be on MAX 2009 this year (which will be held in Los Angeles from October 4-7) hosting a lab session with the title ‘LiveCycle ES for Service Orchestration‘.

The official description of this session is:In this session you will learn about the LiveCycle ES architecture (the foundation upon which services are built), invocation mechanisms, integration of services (custom components) within LiveCycle ES processes, management of user roles, the SOA GUI, real-world user experiences, form guides, custom apps, and more.But what does this all really means?You will get hands on in buiding a process around document-centric services we offer as part of LiveCycle ES, as well amend that process with out of the box generic services.The lab will also teach you how to incorporate your own plain old Java functionality into a LiveCycle ES service and use that in your process. Last but not least you will get your hands dirty on how to expose all this functionality to end users using LiveCycle ES Workspace as well as other ways to invoke your newly built process.I’m still preparing the lab session, so as long as it is not finished (which must be pretty soon though due to the strict MAX 2009 session preparation guidelines) input is appreciated.I’m looking forward to see you in my lab which will be held on Monday October 5th from 2.30pm to 4pm.

AdobeMax07

Here is my personal Adobe MAX2007 session schedule. Bear in mind there are lots of other activities going on in between these sessions and in the evenings, like general sessions and sneak peaks. And even activities Adobe Consulting is hosting, like Chalk Talks and a “Adobe Consulting knows everything about Flex, LiveCycle ES and User Experience Design” BOF. Read all about it on Steven Webster’s blog.

I joined Adobe as a technical architect after having worked for the last couple of years for PTC/Arbortext as solution architect, mainly focusing on enterprise publishing solutions. Before that, I worked most of my career at HP, focusing on middleware technologies and business process management. Within that HP period, I even stepped out for a year to work for Macromedia (we’re talking beginning of the century) but enterprise business was not yet high on Macromedia’s radar screen, hence my return to HP in 2001.

How different it is these days for Adobe. Being involved mostly with the LiveCycle ES technology stack but not neglecting the Flex spectrum of products (LiveCycle Data Services ES to name an example), I see the vast opportunities of merging this enterprise solution stack with the magnificent Adobe technologies (AIR, Flex) to build real rich enterprise Applications. That is what I want to blog about in general; more specifically I want to inform you on what I experience and learn during projects, meeting customers, working with colleagues, visiting conferences, etc.

B.t.w. did I mention visiting conferences? Did I mention I will visit MAX2007 in Chicago? What a great way to get this blog starting. More to come for sure…