Anil Channappa’s Blog

Learn more about LiveCycle Data Services (LC DS) and Blaze DS

League of legends uses LCDS and AIR

leave a comment »

Check out this cool online game. This was show in MAX 2009 keynote. The game setup and administration is developed using LCDS and AIR ?

Written by Anil

October 9, 2009 at 9:46 am

Posted in LC DS

Try out the new (beta) LCDS and Flash Builder bits on labs.adobe.com

leave a comment »

At MAX (Adobe Developer conference), we released beta 3 of LiveCycle Data Services ES2, the next version of LiveCycle Data Services. LiveCycle Data Services beta was publicly released on June 15, 2009. The following changes are included in the new beta:

  • The modeler now supports a graphical display for associations between entities making it easier to define relationships
  • The properties inspector UI has been completely redesigned based on user feedback.
  • Model driven form can be customized to suit project specific needs
  • The server now has support for Edge Server. Edge server is a RTMP and HTTP proxy over NIO. Edge server is deployed in the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) allowing you to securely deploy your business logic on the application tier.
  • Added support for Flex SDK 3.4

These represent the key changes, and not meant to be a comprehensive list of changes.

Quick links to get these bits:

LCDS 3: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/livecycle_dataservices3/

Flash Builder 4: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashbuilder4/

Written by Anil

October 9, 2009 at 9:20 am

Posted in LC DS

Checkout this cool video about LCDS 3 and FlashBuilder4 from Christophe

leave a comment »

As usual Christophe has another cool demo using the latest bits of LCDS 3 and Flash Builder 4.

Let me know if have developed any interesting applications using our beta bits. Also, I am open to any feedback.

Anil

LCDS 3 beta

Flash Builder 4 beta

The bits used by Christophe are newer than you can find on labs. If you are interested in getting the latest and greatest, try these steps

Written by Anil

September 17, 2009 at 9:35 am

Posted in LC DS

Open positions in LCDS and BlazeDS engineering

with 4 comments

We have some open positions in our engineering team. Let me know (anilc@adobe.com) if you or anyone you know is interested in these jobs?

LiveCycle Data Services and BlazeDS are core products of the Adobe Flash Platform http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform/

http://www.dcooper.org/blog/client/index.cfm?CFID=801070&CFTOKEN=66561700

Thanks

Written by Anil

September 9, 2009 at 4:28 pm

Posted in Blaze DS, LC DS

Model Driven Flex Development with LCDS3 Beta, now available on labs

with 9 comments

I am pleased to announce that we have made the LCDS 3 beta available (require Flash Builder 4 Beta) for preview. There is a lot of new and interesting features, including the ability to develop flex applications from a model. We have provided seamless developer, deployment experience that should definitely improve developer’s productivity.

You can find more information on labs.adobe.com.

We have a couple of introductory videos that should help you get started. Some of the folks are putting together more videos that walks through specific features in more detail, but those will not be available until the end of this week or early next week.

Download the product and let us know what you think of it. Feel free to use the Forums and bug base to provide us feedback or suggestions.

Anil

Written by Anil

June 17, 2009 at 3:38 pm

Posted in LC DS

RTMP Spec has been released

leave a comment »

Check out the blog post for more details http://blogs.adobe.com/ktowes

Along the same note, many people have assumed that Adobe is planning to add RTMP support to BlazeDS. I just wanted to reiterate that we have no plans to add RTMP to BlazeDS, and will only be supported in LCDS.

Written by Anil

June 15, 2009 at 4:52 pm

Posted in LC DS

LCDS Beta coming soon

with 4 comments

As most of you have already heard of FlashBuilder4  (used to be called FlexBuilder) is going beta soon. We have added a lot of capability to FlashBuilder and LCDS server that would make the application development process fun and interesting. We will soon be releasing a public beta of LCDS.

Besides model driven development, we have made a lot of additional features and improvements in the product. Watch out on this space and I will provide more updates on this soon.

Written by Anil

May 19, 2009 at 7:47 am

Posted in LC DS

BlazeDS LGPL V3 clearing up the confusion

with 11 comments

I have had several questions on using BlazeDS in applications, and hence decided to create a  post that addresses some of the confusion.

The Free Software Foundations GPLv3 and LGPLv3 are popular licenses, but each comes with associated risks. Since it is possible for source code under either of these to cross the boundary into your own code, every company must have their own policies when it comes to using or including GPL and LGPL software into their own offerings.

BlazeDS is distributed under a LGPL V3 license.  You should check your company policy of using a GPL or LGPL software license in your product. For some companies a closed souce license may work better. Adobe offers a closed source license, which includes support and platform certification, for BlazeDS.   Please contact Garen Ingleby if this is of interest to you.

BlazeDS is only supported by the community through the discussion forums. This may not be a problem for many of you, but in several cases it would be worthwhile to use open source code that is backed by Enterprise support and Platform Certification.  Adobe goes through a rigorous testing and platform certification process that enables us to offer enterprise support and platform certification. Sorry for the confusion, but the support and platform certification is called “LiveCycle Data Service Community Edition” You can purchase this directly from Adobe.com for roughly $4K. Follow this link for more details.

Upcoming Changes

We understand that many of you are looking for exceptional value when it comes to BlazeDS and LC DS. We are working on a proposal internally to address just that. Watch out, I will post more details as we finalize this proposal.

Written by Anil

April 15, 2009 at 12:26 pm

Posted in Blaze DS, LC DS

Another Demo – Spring Integration

with one comment

I had talked about Blaze DS and LC DS integration with Spring (Catch up). Here is a short demo.

Written by Anil

February 27, 2009 at 11:08 am

Posted in Blaze DS, LC DS, Spring

Model driven development Demo

leave a comment »

It has taken some time, but we now have the Model driven development demo available to you all. Please note this demo is a very early release of Gumbo (FlexBuilder Next) and LCDS Next. The actual implementation can be different from what you see in the demo.

Check out my previous post to know more Model Driven Development

Written by Anil

February 18, 2009 at 7:02 am

Posted in LC DS