LiveCycle Data Services (LCDS) 3 Released

LiveCycle Data Services 3.0 is released as part of LiveCycle ES 2

What’s New

1. Model driven development of Flex applications
2. Reliable Messaging
3. Throttling
4. Edge Server
5. Load test harness: Simulate Flex clients in Java

Documentation:

LiveCycle Data Services ES2 Quick Starts – http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_lcds3_modeling_howto

Other documentation – http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/lc_ds_list.html

Download Developer Version

You can Download the trial or a free developer version to get started from this URL http://www.adobe.com/go/trylivecycle_dataservices

Please find more details regarding the announcement on Anil Channappa’s (Product Manager LCDS and BlazeDS) blog at this URL http://anilchannappa.org/2009/11/20/lcds-3-0-released/

Congratulations to the entire LiveCycle Data Services team … LCDS team Rocks

Speaking at Adobe devsummit Chennai and Hyderabad

I will be speaking on Data Centric Development on Adobe Flash Platform and also will be handling the Learn by doing – Part 2: Integrate with server session along with Prashant Singh.

Summit attendees will get a complimentary Flex Builder 3 Professional License. Please find session abstracts and more details below

Adobe devsummit is the biggest annual developer event focused on the Adobe Flash Platform. This event attracts a rich demographic mix spanning designers and developers in India. Adobe has consistently showcased path breaking technologies at devsummit.

For the first time Adobe devsummit is coming to Chennai, India (24^th November, 2009) and Hyderabad, India (1^st December, 2009). Please find more details on Adobe devsummit Chennai and Hyderabad and register at this URL http://endtoend.in/apps/forms/adobe/DevSummitNovDec09/home.html

Excited to meet the developers in Chennai and Hyderabad

Session Abstracts

Data Centric Development on Adobe Flash Platform

See how to build an engaging Flex application for any server side technology productively. While application created with Flex and Flash already have ability to communicate with various back ends, see how data services can add power to a back end.

This session starts with showing how to use Data-Centric Development feature in Flash Builder 4 to productively create Flex applications connecting to various server technologies. Next, see how the brand new model-driven development feature of LiveCycle Data Services ES allows you to build and maintain data-driven Flex applications with an unprecedented level of productivity and flexibility.

Learn by doing – Part 2: Integrate with server

Learn how to connect your Flex application to servers for retrieving/storing data; and also deploy your application. We will demonstrate how you can connect to various server technologies like Java, .NET and PHP using remoting and web services. You will also learn how to use the Data-Centric development feature in Flash Builder 4 to develop Flex applications that connect with various server technologies.

If you are living in and around Chennai or Hyderabad, go ahead and register for the summit

Catch you all at the summit

Call for sessions at Adobe DevSummit, Chennai and Hyderabad

Adobe DevSummit is the biggest annual developer event focused on the Adobe Flash Platform. This event attracts a rich demographic mix spanning designers and developers in India. Adobe has consistently showcased path breaking technologies at DevSummit.

For the first time DevSummit is coming to Chennai and Hyderabad. DevSummit in Chennai will be on 24th November, 2009 and in Hyderabad on 1st December, 2009. We will be posting more details on the event and venue soon

We would love to have the experts from the Adobe developer community take the stage and share their knowledge and insights on Adobe Flash Platform. Please find more details and submit your session proposals at the URL below.

http://flashahead.adobe.com/events/devsummitsessionproposals/

hackrchallenges – Flex in a Week challenge

I am a bit late in blogging about this. Flex in a Week challenge was launched on 5^th August, 2009 and is already being attempted by 210 users

Flex in a Week video training is one of the best resources to start learning Flex. India Platform Evangelism team has given more reasons to learn Flex in a week by going through this video training course.

Go through the course and complete the Flex in a Week Challenge, you can get a cool badge you can sport on your website, blog or any other place where you think it will be useful. There are tee shirts also to be won by top 25 scorers and the first 25 users who clear the challenge.

If you already know Flex, take Flex in a Week challenge and get a badge for yourself and sport it to everyone

Please find more details at this URL http://flashahead.adobe.com/challenges/

India Platform Evangelism team also took couple of initiatives to communicate with the community easily. You can follow any of the following to get updates from the team and information about the various events and activities

Portal – http://flashahead.adobe.com

Blog – http://flashahead.wordpress.com

Twitter - http://twitter.com/flashahead

Adobe Rocks

Speaking at Dev Summit 2009 on LCDS 3

I am taking a session on Flex and Java/J2EE integration At Its Best at Dev Summit 2009 on 4^th August at Lalit Ashok, Bangalore, India.

You can sign up for a Gold pass, which is absolutely free. You can also sign up for a Platinum pass with a nominal registration fee of Rs. 3000/- and get a Flex Builder 3 Professional license* FREE! You can find the complete agenda and register for the event at this URL http://www.endtoend.in/apps/forms/adobe/DevSummit09/agenda.html

Session title: Flex and Java/J2EE integration At Its Best

Target Audience:

1. Java/J2EE programmer interested in learning how to integrate Adobe Flex with Java

2. Adobe Flex programmer interested in learning how to communicate with Java servers

3. Developers interested in knowing what’s new in Adobe LiveCycle Data Services 3 beta

4.  Developers interested in knowing about new technology from Adobe code named Fiber (part of Adobe LiveCycle Data Services 3 beta)

Planning to discuss these topics

1. Accessing Java objects made easier using Flash Builder 4
   1. A quick look on how Flex can communicate with a Java class on server using Flex Remoting
   2. Consume a Java class exposed as Remoting service destination. Yes, using DCD wizards in Flash Builder 4
2. What’s new in LiveCycle Data Services 3 beta
3. Model driven development using Fiber
   1. We will see how we can do model driven development using LCDS 3, Fiber Modeler and Flash Builder 4
4. Deep dive into Fiber
   1. What is Fiber and how useful it is
   2. Introduction to Adobe data model
   3. How Fiber is used to generate client-side ActionScript and server-side Java data-access code from a model
   4. How to configure Fiber, to change code generated
   5. What is Fiber runtime and how it works
   6. Understanding the code generated by Fiber
5. Reliable communications and Data Throttling

Catch you all at the summit

Adobe LiveCycle Data Services 3 beta is here

Adobe LiveCycle Data Services 3 beta is here. As always LCDS team has added lots of new features and made improvements to existing features. With LCDS 3 beta application development is much faster and developers can use features like Reliable communications and Data throttling.

We have new technology from Adobe, code named Fiber. Fiber lets you do model-driven development. With this release of LCDS, Adobe also released a graphical modeling editor called Fiber modeler plugin, which allows you to use Flash Builder 4 with LCDS 3 to create a complete RIA by just pointing to your tables in the database. You don’t have to write any server side code, LCDS 3 creates the assembler required, creates data management destination and hence all ready to consume it from Flex applications. We all know that with Flash Builder 4, consuming data services is just few clicks as explained at this URL http://sujitreddyg.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/building-flex-application-for-blazeds-remoting-service-using-flash-builder-4/

Tutorial on model-driven development using Flash Builder 4 and LiveCycle DS 3

Please find more details on what’s new in LiveCycle Data Services 3 beta at this URL http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/articles/lcdses3_whatsnew.html

I already downloaded LCDS 3 and am using it, it’s too good. Download LiveCycle Data Services 3 beta at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/livecycle_dataservices3/

Adobe rocks

Speaking at BOJUG, Blore on Flex with Java

I am taking a session on using Flex with Java at Bangalore Open Java User Group (BOJUG) meeting in Bangalore on 30th May, 2009 starting at 11:00 AM for 2 hours. Register here http://www.eventbrite.com/event/348287738 to attend this session.

Target audience:

1. Java/J2EE programmer interested in learning how to build rich internet applications

2. Java programmer interested in learning Flex

3. Flex programmer interested in learning how to communicate with Java servers

3. Heard about BlazeDS/LCDS, want to know more

Planning to discuss these topics

1) Quick introduction to Enterprise RIA with a few demos

2) Coding demos of how Flex connects to Java back ends

3) Building an enterprise dashboard using Flex and Java

Important : – Please don’t forget to register before attending the meeting, as only registered participants would be allowed inside the Adobe Campus due to security reasons.

Catch you all there

Adobe Flash Platform Tools Preview – 3rd June 2009

Things got better. Innovation continues. Adobe is the LEADER.

I tried out the new features, they are EXCELLENT. Very excited to show and talk about the changes to the Adobe Flash Platform

Preview of new innovations - Adobe Flash Builder 4(formerly known as Flex Builder), Adobe Flash Catalyst, upcoming versions of LiveCycle and BlazeDS at the “Adobe Flash Platform Tools Preview” to be held on 3rd June 2009 at Taj Residency in Bangalore. You can read more about the event by visiting this website.

Entry to this event is by invitation only. I have few passes which I can give away, if you like to attend this event (it is an evening event with dinner) drop me an email @ sujitreddy.g@gmail.com and I will send you an invite. I have a limited number of invites in my quota which I can release on FCFS basis. So hurry up, send me a mail

Adobe Rocks

Flex Builder will be named as Flash Builder

The next version of Flex Builder will be named Flash Builder. This will create a better distinction between the open-source Flex framework and the commercial development tool.

I love the new name, this is excellent. Great going Adobe.

Adobe sweeps GIDS 2009 awards

Adobe won awards in 3 categories at Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS) 2009.

Adobe Flex for Best Framework, Adobe ColdFusion for web development and Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional for best Collaboration Solution.

GIDS 2009 Awards

Sorry couldn’t get ColdFusion award in the picture.

Award Categories:

http://www.devmarch.com/developersummit/awards.html

Collaboration Solution (Winner: Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional)

Nominate from groupware, real-time conferencing and collaboration, and digital communities.

Web Development (Winner: Adobe ColdFusion)

Nominate from web development and deployment tools that are helping developers and designers push the boundaries of the web.

Frameworks (Winner: Adobe Flex)

Nominate from across the several libraries, components, and frameworks that are part of every developers treasure chest.

Thanks to all who voted