Creating Your First Component

A component contains one or more services, and each service contains one or more operations. A service contains business logic that is executed when an operation is invoked. The business logic consists of Java classes and interfaces. To fully explain how to create a component, this section discusses how to create an email component that contains one service that exposes an operation named send that sends email messages to email recipients.

Note: The component that is created in this section uses the JavaMail API. To follow along with this section, download the JavaMail API at http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/.

Sample files

This section creates Java classes and interfaces that correspond to Java files that can be located in the sample email component located at C:\Adobe\LiveCycle8\LiveCycle_ES_SDK\samples, where C:\ is the LiveCycle ES installation location. As you read through this section, it is recommended that you also refer to the sample files.

Note: The LiveCycle ES SDK is also installed as part of Workbench ES.

Summary of steps

To develop a component, perform the following steps:

1.	Set up your development environment.

2.	Create your application logic.

3.	Define the component XML file.

4.	Deploy the component to LiveCycle ES.

5.	Test your component.

After you deploy a component to LiveCycle ES, you can use it to create a process using Workbench ES, or you can invoke the component’s service(s) by using an invocation method such as the Java API, LiveCycle Remoting, or web services. For information about invoking services, see Introducing Invocation.

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