Few questions here to understand more about AEM Forms that was difficult to find as a consolidated view on AEM forms technical view in this help page https://helpx.adobe.com/aem-forms/6/getting-started.html
1) How does AEM Forms / Adaptive forms manages form data ?
1.1) Is this managed via reverse replication to author and replicated to other publish instances in case of more than 1 publish instance ?
2) When ever processing of data required
2.1 ) is this managed via separate processing AEM instances that is connected to a live cycle instance ?
2.2) Can we assume he also data is reverse replicated and then stays only with processing instance ?
2.3)What is the use case of this kind of AEM forms & Live cycle?
2.4) Why do we need a processing instance and why not continue with authoring instance alone
3) How does AEM forms manage from entry state in case of multi publish instance ?
4) What are the OOTB adaptive nature of AEM forms ? like device detection and content rendering - pdf vs html