Dr Flex & Dr LiveCycle

If you have installed and deployed Adobe LiveCycle Content Services ES for Document Management and/or Archiving purposes you have already seen the out-of-the-box features that are included in the product. Now, if you have written your own extensions and want to package these, the easiest way to do this is by creating a so called AMP file. This is a format that can be imported in another instance of Adobe LiveCycle Content Services ES.

Now without going into details on how to create these AMP files, you should know that there are also AMP files available in the community that you might want to evaluate. If you have installed the full LiveCycle ES Suite you will also get, as part of the SDK, a couple of sample packages such as records management, blog integration (including WordPress), and others.

Now the documentation is not very clear on how to deploy the included samples (or other available AMP files) to your deployed Content Services application. Below you will find a couple of steps on how to import AMP files.

1. Locate the C:\Adobe\LiveCycle8.2\LiveCycle_ES_SDK\misc directory

2. In there you will find a couple of AMP files and a utility called Module Management Tool. (adobe-contentservices-mmt.jar)

3. Locate the C:\Adobe\LiveCycle8.2\jboss\server\all\deploy\adobe-contentservices.ear

4. Retrieve the contentservices.war file from the ear file above

5. Open a command line tool and goto the directory C:\Adobe\LiveCycle8.2\LiveCycle_ES_SDK\misc

6. Run: java -jar adobe-contentservices-mmt.jar install yourfilename.amp contentservices.war (Before doing this is is recommended to make a backup of the ear file!)

7. After this, copy back the contentservices.war file into the adobe-contentservices.ear file and copy it back to the LiveCycle ES Deployment directory (C:\Adobe\LiveCycle8.2\jboss\server\all\deploy)

7a. To validate wether the AMP is included in the war file, you can run the following command for a list of extensions: “java -jar adobe-contentservices-mmt.jar list contentservices.war”

8. Restart your jboss services to be 100% sure that you have the extensions available

If you find any interesting AMP files in the community, please share them with us. Have fun in trying the above.

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