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 🙂