I don't recommend using the Adobe MySQL database for anything other than LiveCycle.   I suggest you create another MySQL instance to hold your own data.You can get the MySQL database and tools from the MySQL web page:http://www.mysql.comhttp://www.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/

Use LiveCycle Designer to generate your PDF template.   To get the data from the database you can either         1 - use Designer to directly connect the form to the database     2 - use Workbench to make  JDBC call to the database and use Forms to merge the form template with the data

Hello Han;I've noticed that you are already very active on the Designer forums.   There is additional information in the documentation: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/designerHelp/index.htmYou can find more about Live Cycle Forms and the other Live Cycle Modules in the Developer Center:  ...

It depends on what you used to create the PDF Form.  If you used LiveCycle Designer, then it is quite easy.   You can bind your XML strucuture to the PDF fields using either a schema, or a sample XML file.   Then LiveCycle Forms ES (a server side module running in the LiveCycle environment) can extr...

Yes,  in a setValue assign the /documents node to a map object.

Its been a while, but I remember using the ServletUtils.getRequestBufferAsBytes to process the request object before I could create a com.adobe.idp.Document object:protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {                  ...

I may be mistaken, but I believe that Assembler will attempt to call the appropriate conversion utility to turn your file into a PDF before it does the assembly (toImage2 in this case).You can use the document variable type to hold a non-pdf file.  That document variable would be passed to invokePDF...

What version of Office is running on the LiveCycle PDF Generator ES server?  Even if you save it as an Office 2007 format file, if the Office version on the Generator server is 2010 then that could be a problem. As was stated before Generator currently doesn't support Office 2010

There was a link in my last post:http://forums.adobe.com/community/flex/flex_general_discussion

You probably want to post this to the Flex forum, as this forum deals with the LiveCycle ES productsHaving said that, I know that a DataGrid will take a dataProvider of type XMLList.  If you provide it something like UDSObjectList.children() then you should be able to convert the XML object's childr...