Reader and Web Services

[Former Community Member]

Hi, I'm developing forms in Designer 7 and wish to use ASP.NET 2.0 + Web Services to both prepopulate fields & to receive user entered data as XML upon submit. My web users will only have access to Adobe Reader... so my questions are: can Designer 7 forms, opened in Reader, interact with web services WITHOUT LC Reader Extensions? Second, has anyone come across good examples of doing this without resorting to an Enterprise ASN developer license? Thanks in advanced! Brian

[Former Community Member]

Hi,



As per your first question:



No you cannot have Reader ti interact with a Web Service, unless the form is Reader Extended through LCRE.



But, you might be able to leverage a HTTP connection through GET and POST methods, instead. This could work. Read page 2 from this document:

"Combining LiveCycle 6.x server products with LiveCycle Designer 7.0 and Acrobat 7.0 or Reader 7.0"

http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tips/lc_combine_server_tip.pdf



Another handy tool would be this:

"XML/PDF Access API for Java"

http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/livecycle/topic_xpaaj.html



HTH,

Evangelos