LiveCycle ES4 components are various types of services available to
developers including those needed to capture information, manage and optimize processes, secure information, invoke web services, create documents, and integrate with other applications and data sources. The components include shared "foundation" services which include administration, configuration services, service orchestration, invocation methods across components, and
encryption services. The data capture products allow users to create and deploy
XML-based form templates as
PDFs (Forms Standard and Forms Pro), manage live data (Data Services), and customizes editing functionalities on a per-document basis (Reader Extensions). It also has multiple features to ensure document security. ==Implications for document management systems==