Coldfusion and Livecycle development

Being a (intermediate) Coldfusion developer - addressing SQl and CF queries to an ODBC database (Access) and using Livecycle Designer ES for the first time (Acrobat 9 Pro)... I'm trying to plan the best way to fuse these programs together for a project I'm working on. I'm not fluent with Javascript but can somewhat 'backwards engineer' a script. Not being fluent in Javascript makes me a bit hesitant to even use Livecycle forms in the first place - I'm more used to doing all this with CF and SQL on an internet server...
A couple of the main reasons I'd like to use Livecycle are - the ability to set up some of the forms to run client-side and using a security (ID) key for form submissions back to the server (as well as the capability to 'hash' the data back to the server with encryption). Security features within the PDF invironment are what attracts me to Livecycle forms as well as user interactivity in building the form client-side, as in expanding forms and fields or buttons being visible or hidden depending on the user's choice.
Since Access (2007) can export a table's fields as an XML schema file (from what I've found, needing to re-save this file as an XSD file) for insertion in the Livecycle form - This makes it handy to set up the form to run client-side and not have to address the server-side database everytime a user choice is made on the form, before form submission back to the server.
So... Providing that I don't have to become a JavaScript guru, the following is the 'meat' of this posting - a scenario in (wondering how to get) Livecycle, Coldfusion, SQL, XML and Access all working together:
Livecycle forms set up with an XSD schema provided from Access (the schema within the saved form as a PDF Dynamic XML form) / On validated form completion by the user (client-side) the submit button, after user Key entered, submits to a Cold Fusion (hidden) action page on the server containing CF and/or SQL database insertions, updates, etc. that, after the queries run, 'bounces' the user to another client-side PDF.
Would this scenario work? Am I thinking right on this in mixing Livecycle data with Coldfusion and SQL in this way?
I'm not sure how a CF action page would deal with the data coming into it encrypted (maybe with setting variables) or if the CF action page retains the security set by the PDF page before it bounces the user back to his/her client-side Acrobat Reader... as well as running queries from a CF action page that pulls data from the database and sends back to the user's next PDF as encrypted data.
Also, I'm not sure how the Access generated XML schema treats fields in the database that have a space in the field name, as in a field named "First Name". Some of my table fields are to be updated with an uploaded delimited text file coming from (admin permitted) users - my table fields Have to be set up in Access to match the user's field names. Field names that are merged together in the XML schema wouldn't match up when sent back to the database although I guess you could set variables for this as well on a CF action page.
Should I just forget using Coldfusion and try to do this all through direct database insertion and form filling through the Livecycle PDF forms? (And purchase a JavaScript book to learn yet another language before deadline time?)
In not knowing JavaSript, I'm having a bit of a mental block in learning Livecycle. I had hoped that the JavaScript would be written as you set up button properties, assigned on-click events, structered the subform heirarchy and so on and then, in Livecycle's scriptwriter assign an 'initialize' or 'click' and a function from the "fn" button (that only offers a few choices). I really need to know how to write Javascript myself, don't I? (This is probably obvious to all - "yes, dummy, you need to know how to write JavaScript for Livecycle.) I guess I'm missing something in the help files and tutorials... You can sure tell I'm self taught, huh...
I would do this all with just CF anyhow with application files and session management with cookies and so on but with security concerns it seems PDFs can easily enough be set up in a pretty secure environment. The PDF security as well as client-side user interaction with dynamic PDFs are what attracts me to Livecycle PDFs. There's not too much of a learning curve for building Livecycle PDF forms except for having to learn JavaScript with a deadlined current project maybe being too much for me.
Livecycle or Coldfusion or both programs together? Especially for the security concerns. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of info on CF and Livecycle running together - at Adobe or with googling - at least not on a novice or intermediate level.
Anyone's thoughts or comments on this? I'll post this in the Coldfusion forum as well if y'all think it may benefit forum users there as well.
Thanks for input on this...
- es
[email protected]

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websphere test server right on my desk top and I manually deploy my
cfc to there. When the devlopment is done, I place my new cfc in to
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a cultural bias at the business school where I work. Having said
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security. I did my best to put more in under the constraints of the
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previous version. I did my best to modify the code used to include
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and I said so in the book. Much more is needed for a serious
treatment of the subject and not acknowledging that would have been
a disservice to the readers. I've been working as a developer for
over a decade and I don't know all there is to know about it. It's
a constantly changing field, just like all of web development. In
fact next week I'm going through a 2-day SANS Web Application
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and
format conversions
That so slack how CF still doesn't have this functionality
already - lets
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though, sounds like
it may be quite sophisticated.
All in all though, based on what has been revealed here, it
doesn't sound
like much of an update - would still like to see some higher
level
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can they sell
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> Ben Forta just today sent out an email on this subject.
>
>
quote:
>
> SCORPIO -- A COMMITMENT TO COLDFUSION(R) FROM ADOBE.
>
>
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>
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code-name for
> the next major release of ColdFusion software.
>
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"wraps" off
> Scorpio in keynote presentations and sessions by members
of the
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>
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> application (with a really cool front-end of Adobe(R)
Flex(TM) 2
> software), simplifies troubleshooting during
development, helps
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and allows
> administrators to monitor overall server health, while
receiving
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allows you to
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monitors, bots or
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Mathew's MAX
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following link:
> <Personalized link removed>
>
> 2. Image manipulation functionality -- provides both
high-level tag
> based abstractions for common tasks like resizing,
cropping, and
> format conversions -- and low-level processing of images
with the
> addition of over 50 functions to the ColdFusion Markup
Language (CFML).
>
> 3. More advanced enterprise integration -- allows
ColdFusion
> applications to natively access .NET objects, integrate
with
> Adobe PDF files and forms, and more.
>
> We're planning to release Scorpio in mid-2007 and I am
planning
> our traditional pre-launch user group tour for early
2007. We'll
> show you lots of Scorpio features in action.
>
> I'd like to encourage you to keep up with all of the
developments
> we're making, including beta version availability, as
well as tour
> dates and locations. Just visit the link to the Adobe
Labs page
> below:
> <Personalized link removed>
>
> Thanks!
> Ben "Scorpio Man" Forta
>
> Better by Adobe(TM)
>
>
>
> Adobe, "Better by Adobe", ColdFusion, and Flex are
either registered
> trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated,
in the
> United States, and/or other countries. All other
trademarks are
> the property of their respective owners.
>
> Copyright 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights
reserved.
>
>
>

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I have done this before using PHP and Mysql and it was pretty
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complicated for simply displaying an image staored in a Database.
Has anyone been able to store and display images using MS
Access and Coldfusion before? If so, could you guide me?

The reason for storing the image in the database is that our
company wants it that way for portability reasons. Filenames
change, directories get lost when moving from one system to
another. Databases are easier to backup and are more efficient when
it comes to searching metadata. We have over 300 logos we must
store for our different organizations - having a directory for each
is complicated.
Has anyone had issues like this with Coldfusion and MS
Access? If so could you guide me?
-Thanks

OBIEE Report and Dashboard development best practice

Hi All,
Is there any best practice available on OBIEE report and dashboard development? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
RK

http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=2718365
this might help you
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A tale of a Berkeley DB project: Success and future developements

The site http://www.electre.com is an on-line catalog of all published French books (close to 1 million of them), from the 1970’s to today, with pricing and availability information for professional users.
The entire book database and search engine was developed with Berkeley DB. The site runs relatively problem free, and owes much to the stability and quality of the Berkeley DB source code. Moreover, the software is sold as an intranet version and runs on remote configurations that are out of our direct control. And yet, we don’t get much problem reports from these remote sites.
Development started in 2002. Using Berkeley DB was my decision. It was, with hindsight, a very good decision, but it would be hypocritical to affirm I knew all along it would work out so well. It was partly a gamble, and partly a calculated risk. I am not ashamed to confess that when I finally made the decision to go with Berkeley DB, there were some key areas in the technical design I had no clue how to tackle. Needless to say, any flaws that remain in this area are due to lack of knowledge and lack of foresight on my part, not because of some flaw in Berkeley DB.
What convinced me 4 years ago to “go for it” was Sleepycat’s no-nonsense approach to support from guys like Michael Cahill, Keith Bostic, John Merrells, Dave Seglau, Michael Ubell, Liz Pennel and others. Support was sending a message to [email protected]. Replies were never more than a couple of days away (including time zone differences). There was always something comforting when you read a reply from someone who says he “owns your problem” (especially when you also saw that someone’s name in the source code <g>). The majority of support questions were asked during evaluation and product development, before even a single dime was paid to Sleepycat. (Now that we sell the product as a closed source Intranet solution, we gladly pay the required license fees, of course). The fact that the project development went so well was in no small part thanks to the competence and reliability of the people I communicated with. I never expressed my thanks, so now is as good a time as any to do so. Thanks, guys (and gals).
When Sleepycat was bought by Oracle, it was rumored that the goal was ultimately “to kill the product”. I thought that was ridiculous and an exaggeration by some paranoid people (especially from the MySQL-camp). I understand that Oracle is a big company, and that things are done differently now. Besides, how do you “kill” a product? I didn’t know until I hit my first support question “post-Sleepycat”. So now I do: you kill a product not directly, but, but by a process of what I call “incremental discouragement”. It’s a subtle, 3-pronged approach:
1)     Erect bureaucratic barriers between competent people and your customers. No more [email protected], but a slow and unwieldy web site and a support procedure hiding behind numbers and requiring a 2 hour training session. I’m not sure how I’m going to motivate to management a 2 hour training session for a product we’ve been using for the past 4 years, and which I now master sufficiently to reduce my support requests to about 3 a year, and for which the only difference is a change of company name. There’s a “free” forum, but the primary motivation for it seems to be to allow users to support themselves. Yes, questions are answered on the forum… but compared to the level of support I’ve been accustomed to from the same people in the past, I can’t help noticing something has changed… and not for the better. Some questions aren’t even acknowledged, though they are read over 300 times.
2)     Add useless levels of indirection: when we sell an intranet, we asked Sleepycat to mail us an invoice, which we got within the week. Now we ask Oracle the same thing: the last time we did this was on November 27 of last year, and we still waiting for someone from “the Belgian office” to contact us. The only reply we got was from someone telling us our request would be passed on: a level of indirection not exactly adding value.
3)     Increase useless Information Noise: www.sleepycat.com was all about Berkeley DB and related products. Look at any page on the www.oracle.com site supposedly about Berkely DB and count the number of items and links pointing to products that have nothing to do with Berkeley DB. It’s like that famous analogy: you’re only interested in a banana, and you must take the whole gorilla.
Berkeley DB is the fire behind the electre.com site. Our customers are satisfied, so this is not going to change for this version. But this developer is now convinced to view Berkeley DB as a medium to long-term liability. The fire will be kept alive for the remainder of this electre.com version, but for future versions and other similar projects, other solutions will have to be found. These other solutions will involve a similar gamble as the one I made a few years ago with Berkeley DB. My only hope is to meet similar competence, friendliness and professionalism, but without the overhead and bureaucracy of an organization for which the product is not even part of the core business.

Vincent,
I hear the frustration and concern in your post. I'd like to assure you that we're still here doing what we've done in the past and that your business is valuable to us, don't give up yet! :)
Moving from a company of 30 people to a company of >50,000 people has been an interesting transition for us as well. I have to say that honestly, things are pretty good here inside the realm of Oracle. Of course, some things were bound to change. Oracle has processes in place to acquire and grow companies and that is their intended goal with Sleepycat's Berkeley DB products. As such, some customer facing processes have changed and our home on the internet has been incorporated into the oracle.com site. The interesting thing to me is that even within Oracle's infrastructure you, the customer, are not really much further away from our engineers and support staff than before. Your suggestions, concerns, questions and bugs go directly to us via the same people pre-acquisition for the most part, although that staff is growing. With these OTN forums you have a way to speak directly to most of the Sleepycat staff, 99% of whom are still here at Oracle nearly one year post acquisition. So, I'd argue that we've done a great job of keeping that small company feeling in one of the largest software providers around.
Our web content is 80% identical to that which was on the sleepycat.com sites. Bookmarking one or two locations within Oracle and OTN will get you straight to that information. Sure, there are other product references floating around on the same page and we hope that over time Berkeley DB products and other Oracle products complement each other when used in combination. In general, I believe that most of the web experience is identical with different style sheets and a few extra links.
Support for eval customers continues to be something we provide free of charge via these forums and in private email conversations with our staff. This is unchanged. Ownership of customer issues is much the same as well and we do still use '[email protected]' for tracking issues once opened. We agree that '[email protected]' method of communication was simple and highly effective for us and our customers. We are working with Oracle's support infrastructure to consider adopting similar methods. This is another reason Oracle purchased Sleepycat, to learn from our efficient effective operational model. This is something that is ongoing, in the mean time we still track issues behind the scenes the same way as before with the added information provided by TARs so that we fit into the overall Oracle support infrastructure.
The rumors of our early demise are highly exaggerated. Berkeley DB products are alive and well in Oracle. Just look at the releases we've made in the past 12 months.
As for our three pronged attack. ;-)
1. The distance between first contact with support and helpful information has, in some ways, increased. This is due to the Oracle infrastructure for support that manages all Oracle products. The forums are the replacement for the discussion email lists we managed at sleepycat.com. We're managing a much larger amount of traffic than in the past and most of it is done with the same Berkeley DB engineering team you've come to know and love. Maybe we need to make it more obvious when we answer a question by having a signature indicating who we are, sometimes that's not obvious. As to the particular question you posed, I don't know what happened but the same thing can happen on an email list. My apologies for the lack of a response.
2. Oracle has a huge sales force worldwide. We're only beginning to fully function within this new infrastructure. Sorry we dropped the ball on your sales inquiry, rest assured that we're interested in all commercial deals. Once connected into the Belgium office you'll have a direct relationship, as before, with a sales rep for your use of Berkeley DB.
3. I've already talked about this. Oracle has many products, we're just one of those. We have to fit within the overall site structure. For the most part I'd give us an A- or B+ for transitioning our sleepycat.com information into oracle.com and OTN.com. If you have suggestions as to how we might improve that, drop me a line I'm all ears.
In general I'd like to believe that you and other developers like you will find that our place in Oracle doesn't prevent you from choosing Berkeley DB. Certainly it is a bigger company with some additional process overhead, but hopefully not so much that it prevents you from remaining a loyal customer and someone who would recommend us to others.
regards,
-greg
Gregory Burd [email protected]
Product Manager, Berkeley DB/JE/XML Oracle Corporation

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