Have you heard of the concept of the “Elevator Pitch”. Many of you will be aware of this – you’re in an elevator, and someone says, “So what is xxx?” And you’ve got just 30 seconds or so, to describe xxx clearly, succinctly and persuasively, before the elevator doors open and your captive audience is no longer captive. LiveCycle is complex, it can do so much, and the available literature can be daunting and confusing. Howard Treisman condenses each of the core concepts of LiveCycle into an elevator pitch – 30 seconds or less (or thereabouts!). You can also read about some of Avoka’s own products among the Adobe products, and tried to show where they fit in. Continue reading
Category Archives: LiveCycle Architecture
Managing the size of your LiveCycle database
A user on the Adobe forums, recently posted a comment about noticing that his LiveCycle database was increasing rapidly over time. http://forums.adobe.com/message/1934388#1934388 You may have noticed the same with your own database, as well as the size of the Global Directory Storage, particularly if you’re running larger numbers of long … Continue reading
Processes, Orchestrations, Services, and other confusing terminology
Introduction There are a number of different terms used in Adobe LiveCycle Process Management, including process, orchestration, workflow, service, and component. These can be confusing. Part of the reason for the proliferation of terminology is the history of the Process Management product and industry trends, and this blog entry tries … Continue reading
Speedup JBoss LiveCycle Startup
JBoss LiveCycle Start-up Performance Starting JBoss with a fully configured LiveCycle installation can take an awfully long time! We’ve done some digging and found that a large portion of this time is spent unpacking the LiveCycle EAR file – and copying these files into the jboss/server/all/tmp directory. In fact a fully … Continue reading
Which “bit” of LiveCycle do I need?
Overview LiveCycle has a lot of components, somewhere around 15 last time I counted. Some run on the server, some run on the client, some you cannot actually buy but are bundled with others – it’s really confusing, even for those of us who specialize in LiveCycle. But if you’re … Continue reading
What is Reader Extensions?
Adobe have two products for dealing with PDF files: Adobe Acrobat – mainly for creating new PDF files, in many different ways. Adobe Reader – mainly for reading existing PDF files. Can also be used to fill in forms. Reader is free. There are some additional limitations in Reader. In … Continue reading