After an excrutiatingly long wait, I can finally now call myself an Adobe Certified Instructor. In July I took and passed the Adobe Certified Instructor stand-up exam for LiveCycle 8.0 ES. For a number of reason, just this weekend I finally got the certificates in the mail to officially christen me as an ACI on LiveCycle ES: Designing Forms and LiveCycle ES: Building Applications.
Hopefully I’ll be able to get the ACI logo before long and start using that as well.
I’ve been in Newton, MA (just outside Boston) all this week taking a couple of Flex 2 classes at the Adobe offices here. Starting tomorrow (Thursday) we’re beginning the 2-day class called Flex 2: Data and Communications. One of the prerequisites for the class is to have Flex Data Services (now called LiveCycle Data Services ES) installed and running. I am definitely not very knowledgable on J2EE things in general and JRun configs specifically, but a couple of blog posts helped get on the right track.
Andy Powell has a blog entry titled “Installing Flex Data Services on OS X“ that accomplishes this by putting two WAR files into the /JRun4/servers/cfusion directory so they are auto-deployed when you start your ColdFusion server.
This approach was working except I was having some pathing issues to the images that are referenced in the student files provided by the instructor. After doing some reading, I decided to attempt to deploy LCDS into a separate server in JRun. I stumbled upon a blog post by Joe Rinehart detailing the steps he took to get FDS installed on his Macbook Pro. I followed the steps in his post (with the exception of step 10 as I didn’t have the samples WAR file he mentioned) and things worked like a champ.
At this point, I had a working Flex application at an address like http://localhost:8301/flex/someFolder/someApp.mxml — but something about having that extra /flex/ part of the path didn’t sit right with me. In order to change the context root that LCDS was running under, I had to delete the default-war folder in /JRun4/servers/flex/. That allowed me to change the context root for LCDS from “/flex” to “/”.
I revised my URL to be http://localhost:8301/someFolder/someApp.mxml and was rewarded with the same app as before (but with less typing). Now I just have to figure out how to configure Apache to talk to the JRun proxy port so I can drop the 8301 port alltogether. Something to look foward to tomorrow I guess…
