Anil Channappa’s Blog

LiveCycle data services 3.0 is finally available. Thanks for everyone who provided us valuable feedback and helped us improve the quality and usefulness of the product.

The major changes to this release compared to the previous (lCDS 2.6.1) are:

1. Model driven development of Flex applications – Fiber and the Flash Builder Modelling plugin improves the productivity of rapidly developing web applications.
2. Reliable Messaging – The client server communication just got much reliable, thus allowing application developers to focus on the application and less on their infrastructure
3. Throttling – One less thing to worry about infrastructure. Clients of all kinds use your server, throttling allow administrators and developers to control the server throughput. The adaptive throttling capability
4. Edge Server – For increased scalability and performance, LCDS 2.6.1 already supported NIO and RTMP(s), but LCDS had to be deployed in the DMZ, which obviously is not secure. The edge server, deployed in the DMZ,  is a smart proxy that allows you to host your LCDS server in your application tier. Also, it is totally free if you have a valid license for the LCDS server.
5. Load test harness: Similar to creating your unit test cases, java developers will now be able to simulate Flex clients in Java.

We have also simplified our documentation.

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