Shared Reviews via LiveCycle ES API

Hello,
I've just installed LiveCycle ES and am trying to find a way to enable a pdf for shared review. Is it possible via the java API? And if not is it possible by any programatic solution?
Thanks in advance,
Rich

This is probably not the right forum to get help with this issue.
This is for discussion about the Data Services (formerly Flex Data Services)
server, which supports Flex applications.
Tom

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11.0.09 Planned update, Sept 16, 2014 — Acrobat and Adobe Reader Release Notes
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Type : DWORD(32-bit)
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