Re: Welcome to the Real-World; The Future of XForms

>> Um, IBM has just released an XForms prototype. And
>> Oracle has one in the pipeline too, I understand. 

> Well, it's one thing to throw together a server-side
>tag lib that spits out HTML, it's another to build a
>rich browser with built-in XForms support challenging
>Internet Explorer.

Don't expect everything that IBM does to be open source straight away! 
Since one of the authors of the spec is from IBM, and we have <i>in 
production</i> several real world engagements (in Global Services, not 
Software Group) based on the CR spec (and earlier). In my <humble> 
opinion, the server side component is actually more important than having 
a browser that can render an XForm natively, since the point of XML-out is 
integration with other systems, which requires a server side 
implementation of some of the functionality. The server components can 
also transcode the XForm for what ever user-agent requires access to the 
form.

The alphaworks release represents just some of the work going on in IBM to 
do with XForms.

Cheers

Jonathan R. Young 

IBM Global Services - IT Architect