AFCS Tutorial - Part 0 - Tools

Welcome back. In Part II - We talked about custom messaging. We published and received updated from one CollectionNode to build a chat program.

I decided to rewind, and before moving on to Part III, we will be slowing down and looking at the Cocomo developer tools.

Good Stuff

• Source Repository
• Part 0 - Tools
  
• Part I - Pods
• Part II - Custom Messaging
• Part III - Permissions and Collection Nodes
• Part IV - Shared Properties

AFCS Developer Portal

• https://cocomo.acrobat.com/

At the developer portal, you can sign up for an account, download the SDK, and create rooms. Once you’ve signed up and logged in, make sure you click the big “Download the SDK” link.

Cocomo Dev Portal

To create a room, just click the “add” link under your “Room Instances” tab. The URL to this room is your account url + /roomName, so for my tutorial, it is http://connectnow.acrobat.com/seanhessnet/tutorial.

AFCS SWC

• SDKFolder/libs/

To use Cocomo, you need to take the appropriate swc from the player9 or player10 folder (use player9 if you don’t know), and put it in the libs folder of your flex project

Dev Console and Local Connection Server

• CocomoSDK/extras

Here’s where the real fun starts. Go to the extras folder, and install both the AFCS Dev Console and the Local Connection Server. The LocalConnectionServer lets you work while offline if you switch your authenticator to a local one. I recommend not doing this until you understand permissions, because the Local Connection Server thinks you are always an admin.

The Dev Console does everything else you can think of, including the following

• See who is currently logged in to your rooms
• Inspect your data on the server
• See how the data is structured

To view a room, you have to log in, select the room, and click “Enter Room” on the right.

Cocomo Dev Console

I’ll be talking more about how to use this in Part III - Nodes and Permissions. For now, just fool around You can change the permission settings on rooms and nodes, and can create new Collection Nodes.