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Adobe offers a range of solutions focused on the development of rich Internet applications that include high levels of data integration. These solutions include BlazeDS, LiveCycle Data Services Community Edition, and LiveCycle Data Services ES. Using data services technologies from Adobe, you can more easily build applications that add rich data capabilities to RIAs:

BlazeDS

BlazeDS is an open source remoting and web messaging technology that enables developers to easily connect to back-end distributed data and push data in real-time to Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR applications. Learn more about BlazeDS open source.

LiveCycle Data Services, Community Edition

LiveCycle Data Services, Community Edition is a subscription offering from Adobe that includes access to the latest certified builds of BlazeDS and developer and enterprise support. Learn more about LiveCycle Data Services, Community Edition.

LiveCycle Data Services ES

LiveCycle Data Services ES is a comprehensive technology that enable the development and deployment of rich Internet applications with LiveCycle services, J2EE applications, and business logic. This is a solution for customers requiring commercially-licensed software for deploying business critical applications or who wish to go beyond the infrastructure features of BlazeDS by adding higher-level data functionality such as data synchronization, offline support for Adobe AIR, portal integration, RIA integration with LiveCycle ES software, and advanced deployment options for maximum scalability. Learn more about LiveCycle Data Services ES.

LiveCycle ES vs LiveCycle DS vs BlazeDS – clearing up the confusion

Greg Wilson (Mar. 31, 2008)
Understanding the differences and relationships between the products in the LiveCycle and BlazeDS product family.

Working with LiveCycle Data Services ES

Streaming real-time data into Xcelsius apps (PDF, 616K)

Todd Ruhl (Jan. 26, 2009)
Use the Xcelsius Connector for Adobe LiveCycle Data Services.

Creating Adobe LiveCycle projects in Business Objects Xcelsius 2008 (PDF, 467K)

Kiet Trang (Jan. 26, 2009)
Deploy the project to Tomcat and use the LiveCycle Data Services Connector to attach an Xcelsius model to the feed for real-time data stream visualization.

Working with BlazeDS

More BlazeDS articles

• Getting started with BlazeDS
• Using BlazeDS with Spring
• BlazeDS 30-minute test drive
• Yahoo! Maps Collaboration using Flex and BlazeDS
• Collaborative data entry with Flex and BlazeDS

BlazeDS technical tips:

• How to use BlazeDS messaging
• How to use BlazeDS remoting

Flex Data Services 2 article archive

Flex 1.5 article archive