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Is Adobe discontinuing support for SOAP collaboration?

Apr 26, 2010 5:44 PM

I have heard that Adobe intends to discontinue support for collaborative reviews using the Javascript SOAP object (e.g. Collab,addAnnotStore(), etc.).  My understanding is that in future Acrobat versions Adobe will only support "shared reviews" for collaborative reviews.

 

If that's true, then anyone who trusted Adobe and its documentation since Acrobat 5 (2002 or thereabouts) and developed a document review solution based on SOAP collaboration is, to put it bluntly, SOL.  ( http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=S.O.L. )

 

Can anyone answer this question definitively and authoritatively?  Will Adobe discontinue support of the Javascript SOAP object?

 

Perhaps it's time to move on to the iPad and Google.

576 Views   6 Replies   Latest reply: lrosenth, Jul 6, 2012 8:19 AM
 
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  • lrosenth
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    1. lrosenth,
    Apr 27, 2010 4:08 AM   in reply to wildcathoya
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    We have no plans to discontinue support for the JavaScript SOAP object. 

     

    We have already, with Acrobat 9, started our move away from browser-based reviewed to shared reviews for our own solutions.  But custom solutions - based on SOAP or other methods - should still function now and into the future.

     
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    2. wildcathoya,
    Apr 27, 2010 6:07 AM   in reply to lrosenth
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    If that's true then it's excellent news.

     

    However, that's not what I'm hearing Joel Geraci, who wrote me that "the Collab object applies only to 'Browser-Based' reviews not 'Shared Reviews' so it is like that the object will either be changed or deprecated."  He then referred me to the note at the bottom of the "Kinds of Collaboration" help page in livedocs that says "Browser-based reviews are not supported in Acrobat and Reader 9.0 and are disabled in Acrobat and Reader 9.1 and all future versions."  (Of course, several of the subsequent pages discuss Javascript SOAP including the help page on "SOAP repositories" that provides an excellent rationale for using SOAP.)

     

    Any chance that Adobe will make a definitive statement on this subject?  Otherwise, we're still left hanging and must interpret conflicting signals.

     
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    3. Dilettanto,
    Jul 6, 2012 12:26 AM   in reply to lrosenth
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    Hi Irosenth,

     

    will Collab.registerReview() be supported in future versions of Adobe Readers?

     

    Thanks,

    Dilettanto

     
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  • lrosenth
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    4. lrosenth,
    Jul 6, 2012 5:31 AM   in reply to Dilettanto
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    Is that API publicly documented??  I don't recall it from the documentation…

     
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    5. Dilettanto,
    Jul 6, 2012 6:24 AM   in reply to lrosenth
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    searching for your JavaScript API documentation is a pain ...

    Google Searches mostly point to some V7.0 documents from 2005.

    Your WebPages also do not really help finding them

     

    In the rare place, where i finally found an up-to-date description,

    it seems to be missing by accident.

     

    Will it be supported in the future?

     
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  • lrosenth
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    6. lrosenth,
    Jul 6, 2012 8:19 AM   in reply to Dilettanto
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    If it's not documented, then it's not supported.

     
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