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LIVECYCLE ES4 OVERVIEW
About Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 4
Last updated 1/15/2015
Note: Adobe LiveCycle Process Management ES4 requires you to select Content Repository* module in addition to Adobe
LiveCycle Process Management ES4 module when running Configuration Manager. To take advantage of new Mobile
Workspace capability in Adobe LiveCycle Process Management ES4, you will need Adobe LiveCycle Forms Pro or Adobe
LiveCycle Forms Pro add-on SKU.
LiveCycle development tools
LiveCycle provides development tools so that various users, from business analysts to (J2EE) developers, can
collaborate on the design, development, testing, and deployment of a LiveCycle application.
LiveCycle Workbench: An Eclipse-based development environment that lets users build applications that consist of
forms and business processes. Form developers can create forms that have either a fixed layout or a flowable layout. A
fixed layout remains exactly as it was designed; it does not change to accommodate the amount of incoming data). A
flowable layout expands or shrinks to accommodate the amount of data being merged or entered. These forms can be
rendered by using a number of client technologies, such as PDF, HTML, and Flash. Business analysts and process
developers can use Workbench to design and deploy business processes that leverage the modules.
LiveCycle Designer: A graphical form design tool that simplifies the creation of forms. Form designers can create
applications that generate dynamic, data-driven documents and produce customized business documents for print,
web, or archival. They can build and maintain data capture solutions that read from, validate against, and add to
corporate data sources. With Designer, form developers can integrate PDF or HTML5 documents into existing
workflows by binding forms to XML schemas, XML sample files, databases, and web services. They can merge forms
and documents that are created in Designer with business data and render them as many file types. Some of these file
types are PDF, HTML5, and printing for PCL, Adobe PostScript® and Zebra (ZPL) printers.
Adobe Flash® Builder™: An Eclipse-based development environment for developing RIAs with the Flex framework.
Using Flash Builder 4.7, developers can quickly build and deploy applications that are expressive, intuitive, and
interactive. Using Flash Builder, they can also customize their applications to ensure an appearance that represents the
needs of end users.
LiveCycle SDK: Provides developers with samples and tools that they can use to build new LiveCycle applications or
integrate with existing applications.
Architecture
LiveCycle implements a service-oriented architecture that relies on loosely coupled software services to support
business processes and perform operations on documents. Services run within the service container.
The service container is an extensible component model based on software-oriented architecture (SOA) principles;
components can be added, upgraded, reused, or removed with minimal administration. Components are independent
units of functionality that plug into the service container for deploying, orchestrating, and executing services. The
service container coordinates and monitors the components.
The service container can host any number of services and provides the infrastructure necessary to discover, execute
and deploy, secure, run, and configure the services.
The service container provides a consistent way to interact with the services within the container, repository, and
enterprise integration, regardless of the invocation method. Services can be called by using Java APIs, web services,
watched folders, or email. Service endpoints are also exposed as destinations that RIAs can easily call.
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