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Fiber: How & What should your RIA consume ?

Mohammed Khan — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:49:07 +0000

It all started with Flex Data Service, and since then Adobe has made significant progression in enterprise computing. For me, enterprise computing doesn’t mean complex business use-cases, instead manageable enterprise objects (can be a document or a form or a data-set). Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite has been pretty much successful to engage enterprise computing around the PDF document type. And on other side, an extension of the LiveCycle ES, the LCDS has made it possible for RIA developers to build mission-critical and collaborative applications. Last week at The ActionScript Conference 2009 which was held in Singapore, I made a presentation with the same title, and not sure how well it went with audience (more of designers & flash developers, also post lunch Zzzzz).

As in my earlier post I mentioned, Fiber is a suite of technologies which helps you do model driven development using Flash Builder 4 (with modeler plugin) and LiveCycle Data Services 3. And the major part of the Fiber is the Adobe Data Model, which lets you build data models, create services and bind services to data controls. Below are the slides attached which I used at the TAC 2009 and also find attached source code which was used for demos at the conference.

Fiber : How & What your RIA consume ?

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In order to work with attached codes, you will first need to setup and get started with Livecycle DS 3, about which you can find it here.

Demo II : Getting started with FB4 & LCDS 3
Demo III : Working with Annotations & Styles
Demo IV a : Working with Filters : Criteria based Filters
Demo IV b : Working with Filters : Pass-through Filters

Model Driven Development using LiveCycle DS 3 Beta – Annotations and Styles

Mohammed Khan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:25:26 +0000

In continuation to my last screen cast, this one deals with Annotations and Styles declarations using Adobe Data Model, LCDS 3 Beta and Flash Builder 4. In the next screen cast I shall try to cover working with various types of Filters using Fiber suite.

Model Driven Development using LCDS 3 – Annotations & Styles from Mohammed Khan on Vimeo.

You can download the the source code which was used in the above screen cast here, and the sample MySQL database script here. When importing the project into your Flash Builder 4, you will need to change the LCDS 3 turnkey path in the Flex Compiler settings, also the RDS username and password would change accordingly. If you have any issue in getting started, feel free to share.

Getting started with Model-Driven-Development using LiveCycle DS 3 Beta

Mohammed Khan — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:38:44 +0000

In the following screen cast, I discuss about the tools required to head start MDD using LCDS 3, also how to configure the lcds 3 turnkey solution to enable RDS management, declare data source for the lcds web application and define user security at servlet container level, I hope it helps you get started. In the next part of this screen cast series, we will explore the Fiber suite and Adobe Data Model, where we shall work with Styles, Filters and Annotations.

Getting started with Model Driven Development using LCDS 3 from Mohammed Khan on Vimeo.

UPDATE: The next part of this screen cast titled “Model Driven Development Using LiveCycle DS 3 Beta – Annotations and Styles” is available here.