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LABS GALLERY: Adobe's LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2 Takes to the Amazon Cloud
by Jason Brooks
Cloud Administration
The LiveCycle Express edition I tested sports an easy-to-use Web console that interfaces with Amazon's EC2 infrastructure.
Eclipse-Based
The LiveCycle Workbench is based on the Eclipse IDE.
Windows Required
However, unlike other Eclipse-based development tools, a dependency on Windows in the form designer portion of the Workbench prevented me from running the app on my regular Linux desktop.
Drag and Drop
I was able to drag and drop my way to assembling a polished customer interaction application.
Property Panes
Each object had its own set of properties to specify, which I did through the context-sensitive properties panes common to most graphical IDEs.
Check In, Check Out
LiveCycle is built for collaborative development, with facilities for managing the check-in/out state of project elements.
Security Console
After pulling my test application together, I adjusted its security settings to make it accessible.
Approve or Deny
The test application I assembled tapped Adobe Reader, embedded within a Web interface, for accepting applications and conducting approvals.
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Adobe's LiveCycle ES 2, a suite of Web services for building customer interaction applications atop Adobe technologies, recently became available in a managed services edition running on Amazon's EC2. The hosted edition of LCES speeds developers' paths to building LiveCycle applications, and benefits from an easy-to-use, Web-based console for interacting with Amazon EC2 instances, and a handy networking application for bridging the gap between remote servers and the developer desktop. Click ahead for a look at LiveCycle ES 2 in action, and be sure to read the full eWEEK Labs review here.