LiveCycle @ MAX
Last week I had the privilege of attending MAX, Adobe’s annual conference, and being part of the buzz and excitement around Adobe’s strategy and direction.
There is always a lot going on at MAX, and it’s always difficult to decide what to attend, and what to blog about – so I thought I’d focus on LiveCycle, and leave Flex and Flash and Creative Suite to others.
Some of the highlights for me were:
- Walking in to the LiveCycle pre-conference tutorial on Sunday (yes, people gave up their weekends to attend technical training) and seeing an entire roomful of people (at a rough count, about 70 workstations) banging away building applications using the LiveCycle ES2 beta. Apparently, LiveCycle was the only one tutorial that was completely sold out, as were several LiveCycle sessions during MAX.
- Two new products added to the LiveCycle platform: LiveCycle Mosaic (http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/mosaic/) and LiveCycle Collaboration Services (http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/collaborationservice/ )
- LiveCycle WorkSpace approvals via mobile devices.
- Seeing LiveCycle and Enterprise Development being showcased at the opening keynote by Ben Forta and Rob Tarkoff . http://max.adobe.com/online/keynote_monday/ – About 62 minutes in for Rob and 71 minutes for Ben. Both talks includes a few sample enterprise applications, as well as demos of Mosaic, approvals via mobile devices, and more.
- The new version of Form Guides, or just Guides, as they now seem to be known. We’ve been playing with the early versions of the new Guide Builder for a little while now, and we think Adobe have done an awesome job on this release – Guides are now very powerful and very easy – we’re very very happy.
- The Adobe Data Model. In the Enterprise, everything usually starts and stops with data in a database somewhere. Data model driven development is part of LiveCycle Data Services, but is also used as the basis for the data storage in the new Guides. We’re very excited about this.
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/max-2009-develop/modeldriven-development-using-flash-builder-4-and-livecycle-data-services-es/
You can view many of the Adobe sessions on Adobe TV here:
http://tv.adobe.com/show/max-2009-develop/
including this one, on What’s New in LiveCycle ES2
http://max.adobe.com/online/session/46
This is Jayan’s pick of the sessions:
http://blogs.adobe.com/livecycle/2009/10/max_2009_sessions_about_livecy.html
One other amusing note: The mythical John Jacobs, who is a “sample” user that appears in many of LiveCycle’s samples and demos, actually exists. He was at the MAX conference, and attended the pre-conference tutorials. Hello John!