Process Adobe Form with MDB's

Question

I am trying to develop an automated process that receives an Adobe Interactive Forms as an email attachment and performs a bapi call to an R/3 backend. I plan to use an XI interface that will monitor a email inbox and deliver the pdf as a message to an JMS queue. Once the message has been delivered to the JMS queue a Message Driven Bean will process the message (pdf form). This MDB needs to extract the data from the form and call a bapi on the R/3 backend (JCo). At this point I am trying to develop the MDB.
Can someone provide any hints or code example that I could use in the MDB that could extract the data from the pdf form?

Answer 1

Hello Marc,
     Yes, you can do it. The below method will not call the adobe form FM twice and you don't even need to create a new master page.
If the value of header field in Master page changes each time, You need to JavaScript for this.
So you will be having some dynamic data in design view based on which the header will be changing. So fill the value of header in the design view. And write the JavasScript code on the Header Text field of Master page in Ready Layout event as below.
var currpage = xfa.layout.page(this);
var fields = 0;
fields = xfa.layout.pageContent(currpage-1, "field", 0);
for ( i=0; i<= fields.length-1; i++ )
          if ( fields.item(i).name == "HEADER" )
                    this.rawValue = fields.item(i).rawValue;
Here HEADER is the field in the design view which contains the value of Header. So whenever the same master page is triggered each time, the Header in the Master page is filled using this HEADER field from design view.