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UI Technologies Leveraged by LiveCycle ESPDF and XMLPortable Document Format (PDF) is the standard for the reliable and more secure distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around the world. It is a universal file format that preserves the fonts, images, graphics, and layout of any source document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it. As a published file format specification, PDF is available to anyone who wants to develop tools to create, view, or manipulate PDF documents. It is recognized by industries and governments around the world, and versions of it have been established as open standards, including PDF/A, PDF/X, and PDF/E. Businesses and governments benefit from the ubiquity, pervasiveness, and fidelity of the PDF platform because free Adobe Reader lets them view content-rich PDF files. Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language that supports a wide variety of applications and is used extensively to facilitate the sharing of data across different information systems, particularly systems connected via the Internet. Adobe LiveCycle ES combines PDF and XML standards to capture information for integration with your existing enterprise infrastructure and to dynamically generate personalized documents using data from those same back-end systems. A key mechanism for delivering this capability is XML Forms Architecture (XFA), which combines the data and capabilities of XML with rich presentation capabilities for multichannel delivery, including PDF. LiveCycle Designer ES enables the creation of dynamic XFA form or document templates, supports XML data and schema bindings, enhances document security with template designs for digital signatures, and enables compliance with government accessibility requirements for online forms. With LiveCycle Designer ES and XFA, your organization can extend existing investments in XML technologies, applications, and development expertise by enabling anyone with Adobe Reader to participate in more secure, interactive data capture processes that extend your enterprise. Flex and FlashA rich Internet application is a Web experience that is engaging, interactive, lightweight, and flexible. RIAs combine the richness of a desktop application with the broad reach of traditional Web applications. The technology platform of choice for building and deploying RIAs is award-winning Flex software — a cross-platform, open source framework for creating RIAs. Enterprise developers can use Flex to create RIAs that are personalized, interactive, multimedia-rich, and run identically in all major browsers and operating systems — all factors that enhance the user experience, leading to greater productivity and overall satisfaction for end users. And because Flex RIAs run on Flash Player, they can reach the broadest possible audience of customers, partners, and employees. The Flex programming model is both powerful and elegant: a combination of an XML declarative language, to lay out the user interface of the application, and ActionScript, an ECMAScript-compliant programming language. Leveraging a powerful, Eclipse-based design and development tool, an extensive visual component library, and a modern, cross-platform, open source client application framework, Flex delivers stunning, high-performance applications. LiveCycle ES designers and developers can enhance their applications by adding Adobe Flex software. Because LiveCycle Workbench ES and Adobe Flex are both Eclipse-based tools, the combination provides a unified developer experience for creating customer engagement applications — applications that revolutionize the user experience. Designers and developers can use Flex to create rich, interactive components that can be used by LiveCycle form designers to extend the functionality of form guides to further enhance user interaction and productivity. Leveraging the rich Flex component library, these components can include charts, data grids, and Flash animations — as well as custom components that harness the power of LiveCycle Data Services ES, such as click-to-chat, live help, or real-time data streaming. Developers can also use Flex to customize Adobe LiveCycle Workspace ES software, the intuitive Flex based application that lets end users initiate and participate in forms-based business processes through a Web browser. This customization helps ensure that the LiveCycle Workspace ES interface is branded appropriately and meets the specific and unique business requirements of your organization. LiveCycle Workspace ES also integrates with LiveCycle Data Services ES to automatically synchronize data with the LiveCycle server. Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)Future customer engagement applications can be built using a seamless blend of UI technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, Flash, Flex, and Ajax and deployed to the desktop using the Adobe Integrated Runtime (Adobe AIR™). Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing Web development skills to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop. Once installed on Adobe AIR, these connected desktop applications complement browser-based Web applications by providing additional reach and capabilities. Adobe AIR adds powerful new capabilities to applications, including the ability to drag and drop items from the desktop into a Web application, access to the local file system, executing background processes, sending alerts, and offline and occasionally connected application support. Adobe AIR applications can be built using a wide variety of tools, frameworks, and IDEs and allow Web developers to extend their Web-based applications to the desktop without learning traditional desktop development technologies or the complexity of native code. HTML and AjaxLiveCycle ES embraces the use of HTML and Ajax at every level of the platform, including clients, programming models, server technologies, and tooling. For example:
HTML and Ajax clients can easily consume LiveCycle ES services. Ajax Data Services, available with LiveCycle Data Services ES, brings synchronous publish/subscribe messaging, cross-domain data access, advanced data management, and offline data access to Ajax-style applications. The Flex-Ajax Bridge exposes a Flex application or component to scripting in a Web browser to make ActionScript classes available to JavaScript without any additional coding. This makes it easy to incrementally integrate Flash and powerful components and applications built with the Flex framework, as well as vector graphics, audio, video, and charting into Ajax-style applications. Also, LiveCycle ES allows developers to combine the strengths of Ajax and Flex to deliver rich user experiences. |
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