Adobe® LiveCycle® Data Services ES — previously named Adobe Flex® Data Services — was added to the LiveCycle ES family in June 2007. In October 2009, Adobe unveiled the current version, the LiveCycle Data Services ES2 module.The LiveCycle name reflects the key role the module plays in delivering data-intensive enterprise applications that engage users through rich and compelling interfaces.
To learn more about the benefits of upgrading to LiveCycle Data Services ES2, choose the tab that best represents your current software version.
Data Services ES or Update 1
Upgrading to LiveCycle ES2
What are the new features in LiveCycle Data Services ES2?
LiveCycle Data Services ES2 includes the following new capabilities:
- Support for model-driven development of applications built with Adobe Flash®, which makes application development better, faster, and easier
- Support for an acknowledge capability that enables all communications between Flex based Flash applications and the LiveCycle Data Services server to be guaranteed
- Data throttling, which reduces or increases the amount of data being streamed based on the speed at which the Flash Player runtime processes data
- Support for Spring integration
- Java™ based load/stress testing, so developers can now create thousands of virtual clients to test applications
- An edge server that can be deployed in the DMZ and provide more secure communications to a LiveCycle Data Services instance running behind the firewall to communicate with core enterprise applications
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Flex Data Services or previous version
Upgrading to LiveCycle ES2
- Why was Adobe Flex Data Services renamed Adobe LiveCycle Data Services?
- LiveCycle Data Services is the next generation of Flex Data Services. The name change reflects an important expansion in the use of these valuable data integration services. Now joining the Adobe LiveCycle brand of enterprise software, LiveCycle Data Services plays a key role in delivering data-intensive applications that engage users through rich and compelling interfaces.
- What are the top reasons to upgrade to LiveCycle Data Services ES2?
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- Reduce time to market of new, innovative customer engagement applications.
- Extend business processes to rich user interfaces.
- Generate PDF documents from Flex applications that include graphical assets, such as graphs and charts.
- Use real-time messaging with support for data conflation and quality of service.
- Support data synchronization for occasionally connected and offline applications that can be deployed on the desktop using the Adobe AIR® runtime.
- Take advantage of Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) deployment and management of RIAs and form guides inside a JSR-168–compliant portal application server without portal-specific programming.
- Quickly build RIAs with Ajax and Flex, allowing support for client-server data synchronization and real-time sub-pub messaging.
- What are the new features in LiveCycle Data Services ES2 compared to Flex Data Services?
- LiveCycle Data Services ES2 offers many new capabilities targeted at enterprise Flex application development, including:
- Support for model-driven development of applications built with Flash, which makes application development better, faster, and easier
- Support for an acknowledge capability that enables all communications between Flex based Flash applications and the LiveCycle Data Services server to be guaranteed
- Data throttling, which reduces or increases the amount of data being streamed based on the speed at which Flash Player processes data
- Support for Spring integration
- Java based load/stress testing , so developers can now create thousands of virtual clients to test applications
- An edge server that can be deployed in the DMZ and provide more secure communications to a LiveCycle Data Services instance running behind the firewall to communicate with core enterprise applications
- LiveCycle remoting, which allows Flex clients to call operations on LiveCycle services without going through the LiveCycle Foundation web services layer
- The ability to generate PDF documents based on preauthored templates that include graphical assets from Flex applications, such as graphs and charts
- WSRP generation, which makes it easy for developers to deploy a Flex application as a portlet in a portal server without having to do any portal-specific programming
- Per-client messaging quality of service, which allows Flex clients to select custom data access policies for real-time data streaming
- Improved offline message queuing to support Adobe AIR application development, which allows Flex applications using LiveCycle Data Services to queue outbound messages locally when the client is offline (and manage exactly what is sent to the server upon reconnect)
- The groundwork for Adobe AIR application support — allowing developers to cache client data requests and data changes to the local file system for later retrieval when an application resumes
- A new SQL adapter that dramatically simplifies the development of applications using data management services without having to write any server-side Java code
- Improved performance and scalability achieved through several additional core data services enhancements
- Support for Flex 3 and Flex Builder™ 3
- Ability to define data management data sources with LiveCycle ES components
- Support for single sign-on for LiveCycle remoting
- Ability to push changes to Flex clients in real time from LiveCycle processes
- Improved performance and scalability over HTTP and RTMP channels
- Flexible ChannelSets to support thousands of connections for each Java process
- On-demand paging directly to the database, so you can turn on paging for associations in your object model
- Support for object models with associations added in a subtype
- Enhanced support for configuration and hibernation destinations, and support for hibernate annotations
- Improved administration console, Java 1.5 enumeration support, customizable client-server object serialization, IPv6 support, and a smaller message envelope
