Tour de LiveCycle Launched
Over the past several months we have been working with the Adobe Evangelist Team to create Tour de LiveCycle, a desktop application designed to explore the capabilities of Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite.
After the success of Tour de Flex it was felt that a similar style AIR application would be an ideal way to allow users to explore the wide range of features and services provided by the LiveCycle ES Platform. There are over 2,000 pages of content, videos and sample applications. Whether you plan to spend 10 minutes getting a feel for what LiveCycle ES is all about or you need to build a full application with LiveCycle ES, Tour de LiveCycle can help.
Tour de LiveCycle is built on Adobe AIR and will run on Windows, Mac and, Linux. All of the content is hosted and downloaded on demand – the installer is only about 1.5MB.
I am developing a combined Adobe Flex and AIR application to manage and organize knowledge, based on topic maps: http://www.quesucede.com/page/show/id/polishedcode. Furthermore, the actual topic map engine was developed with ActionScript 3 and uses SQLite as a backing store (for object graph serialization and de-serialization). With Adobe AIR, I am hoping to provide a vastly improved user experience. Specifically, the availability of powerful graph visualization libraries that allow you to visually layout the relationships between topics contribute to making the whole topic map experience very intuitive and appealing.