Over the past days I found the time to look at the Adobe LiveCycle Data Services 3 beta and in particular the new Adobe Data Model, and I thought I could make a small post series about my first experiences while I’m exploring the new possibilities.

It’s not meant to be a full tutorial, I just plan to describe the experiences I make while browsing through the new functionalities. I will start with a setup description and then taking my first steps, after that I want to look how more complex use cases can be handled and if I find the time, I will try to build a small enterprise application with Flash Catalyst, Flash Builder, Flex 4 and of course Fiber.

But first things first, what is Fiber?

From the documentation we can read: Fiber is the code name for a suite of technologies that enables model-driven development of Flex applications. Fiber consist of three things:

• A data modelling language referred to as the Adobe Data Model.
• Tools for working with models and associated code-generation.
• A runtime environment for the Adobe Data Model.

Ok, this definitively sounds interesting, and because I read recently a post about MetaModels on Peter Bell’s Application Generation blog http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2009/6/24/Models-Meta-Models-and-MetaMeta-Models-oh-My), I thought It’s definitively time to look at this.

Her is what I plan to do:

• First Experiences with the Adobe Data Model – Setup
• First Experiences with the Adobe Data Model – HelloWorld
• First Experiences with the Adobe Data Model – More Complex Objects
• First Experiences with the Adobe Data Model – Model Driven from Design to Data

Sincerely yours,
Roland