Two weeks ago Adobe released LiveCycle Data Services 3.0 beta on Adobe Labs. This is an early preview release and anybody can participate.

Check it out here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/livecycle_dataservices3/.

Andrew Trice said:

The two big features in LCDS 3.0 seem to be Model Driven Development and Quality of Service/throttling/caching from the server side.

in his article on insideRIA and I agree with him.

Also LCDS 3.0 beta comes with a plugin for Flash Builder 4. IT allows data modeling from Flash Builder itself.

This is a short article letting you know that you can have it and play with it.

More about LCDS 3.0 beta:
http://www.insideria.com/2009/06/lcds-30-available-on-adobe-lab.html
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/livecycle_dataservices3/
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/articles/lcdses3_whatsnew.html
http://www.dcooper.org/blog/client/index.cfm?mode=day&day=17&month=6&year=2009

Download link:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_livecycle_dataservices3

About Fiber/Model Driven Development:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/livecycle_dataservices3/gettingstarted.html
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/livecycle_dataservices3/videos/

I just read on Cornel’s blog (Cornel Creanga – Platform Evangelist at Adobe Romania) that it’s available Tour de LiveCycle. This has a similar interface as Tour de Flex, it’s easy to use, has a lot of information, videos, examples. It’s an AIR application, and it needs an internet connection in order to access all the resources, movies and samples (in the future it will also work offline).

For me it’s a great tool, I’am not an expert in LC, but I think you will have all the info that you need in order to build an flex application based on LC. Also it’s a very good starting point if you want to get a taste of LiveCycle as developers or as a customers.

In order to download this application please go to: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/tourdelivecycle/.

Also, you can read Cornel’s post at: http://cornelcreanga.com/2009/05/tour-de-livecycle/.