LiveCycle Data Services 2.6 – new features (4)
Posted by cornel | Filed under Java, LCDS/Blaze DS
Support for offline synchronization was improved in LiveCycle Data Services 2.6 – the Flex applications deployed on the AIR runtime will use a cache base on SQLite database instead of a Local Shared Objects cache.
There are several resources describing in details this feature in detail and providing some samples – Cristophe Coenraets blog, an article on Inside RIA and the developer guide.
Of course, you can synchronize your application without using LiveCycle Data Services and use whatever suits you best (SQLite or LSO), in fact I know several developers who have been doing this for the Flex applications they deploy on browser for a long time. There are, however, advantages to using the LiveCycle Data Services solution for the offline/online synchronization are:
- you do not have to write additional code to deal with synchronization so you can save a lot of time
- you can use the already implemented conflict resolution model