Adobe needs little introduction. The multimedia giant has launched everything from Photoshop to the PDF, and as the years go by, it continues to design products for individuals and enterprises around the globe. One example is the company’s LiveCycle product (www.adobe.com/products/livecycle), a collaboration service that Fang Chang, group product manager for Adobe LiveCycle Collaboration Service, describes as a platform as a service for both developers and enterprises.
“It’s an SDK (software development kit) backed by hosted services run by Adobe that enable companies and developers to create these multiuser types of social, collaborative applications and rich Internet applications,” explains Chang. LiveCycle incorporates chat, video, Web cams, whiteboards, and other collaborative features that might be used in a virtual room or environment, making it easy for customers to create and add these collaborative applications into their products.
When Adobe engineers began building the LiveCycle SDK, they were seeking to design it so data would be available in real time without having to store it in a database. Raffaele Sena, senior computer scientist in the business productivity business unit at Adobe, says that his group started looking around for caching solutions and found that the Terracotta Distributed Cache solution (www.terracotta.org) was the best fit for LiveCycle.
Complete Article: Real-Time Data: Adobe Turns To Terracotta To Meet Its Needs
Post a Comment