W3C Home Page for XForms Home page of the XForms initiative at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), this is also a very good portal of information about XForms. |
Gistics White Paper: "Business Case For Automating the Business-Forms Lifecycle." Gistics White Paper, sposored by Adobe and Documentum, entitled,"Business Case For Automating the Business-Forms Lifecycle." Subtitle: How the rigidity and logistics burdens of manual, paper-based forms add hidden costs and time delays to critical business information flows.
Abstract: Strategies, business metrics, and activity-based payback models that justify an integrated electronic forms-processing system for financial services, government, and manufacturing |
DB2 Magazine: The E-form Revolution From the Article: Digital processes have transformed many businesses, providing instantaneous access to information and information systems. Customers are now able to interact directly with business systems. Yet many businesses still rely on paper forms for business processes. Paper forms have obvious negatives. They're expensive to print, transport, and process. Mistakes are costly to find and correct. So why can't businesses let go of paper? |
Processor.com Article - Migrate Your SME’s Paper Forms To eForms Processor.com Article - Migrate Your SME’s Paper Forms To eForms |
eWeek Article: It's On: IBM Takes on Adobe, Microsoft with E-Forms The purchase is an early skirmish in the looming war between Adobe, Microsoft and Big Blue when it comes to controlling the e-forms market—a hungry market fueled by federal mandate and compliance efforts. |
eWeek Article: IBM Adds E-Forms to Workplace Big Blue vies with Adobe PDF in seeking to tie back-end data to front-end forms, particularly for the vertical industries with the most need: government, health care, insurance and financial services. (Publish.com) |
XML e-Forms: Right for Your Next Project? Article from February 2004 issue of Business Integration Journal. By Mike Rowling. |
Computer Technology Review: Buyer beware: XML and eForms come in various flavors - Internet - Buyers Full text of the article, 'Buyer beware: XML and eForms come in various flavors - Internet - Buyers Guide' by Micah Dubinko, from Computer Technology Review, a publication in the field of Computers & Technology, is provided free of charge by LookSmart's FindArticles service. |
Forms Follow Function, but XML Doesn't, Necessarily Opinion from eWeek Columnist Don Fluckinger: Large-scale, feature-rich implementations of XML forms from Adobe, IBM, and Microsoft might be an answer in search of a problem. |
CNET News.com: Software makers look for profits in e-forms Article is a little dated now, but still provides a good overview. From the Web site, "Companies spend billions of dollars shuffling data from one place to another so it can be put to good use. That--as far as Microsoft, Adobe and others are concerned--presents a huge opportunity." Originally appeared October 13, 2003. |
ZapThink Report: Rich and Smart Clients for Service-Oriented Architectures ZapThink provides excellent research on XML, Web Services, and related issues. This report addresses rich client development environments including InfoPath, and offers a few conclusions. (1) Rich clients will supplant portals as the primary interface to Web Services and Service-oriented functionality in the enterprise by the end of 2007.
(2) The total opportunity for rich clients for SOAs is over $923 million by 2010 realized by new entrant and incumbent vendors.
(3) The window of opportunity for new rich client entrants will start to wane when Microsoft makes the Longhorn wave of OS improvements generally available in 2006, at the earliest. (4) The increasing adoption of devices, mobile computing, and sometimes-connected systems, movement to asynchronous computing, and adoption of e-Forms will mandate widespread and rapid adoption of rich clients. |
InfoWorld: Next-generation e-forms: January 23, 2004: By Jon Udell: E-business Strategies Paper will never die. Instead, it’s going digital and providing a better, XML-enabled way to enter critical data |
InfoWorld: Acrobat challenges InfoPath: August 15, 2003: By Jon Udell: Web services Adobe takes a giant step forward into direct competition with Microsoft, according to this column by Jon Udell. |
XML.com: XForms and Microsoft InfoPath [Oct. 29, 2003] Micah Dubinko, author of XForms Essentials, compares W3C XForms and Microsoft InfoPath, the data gathering technology shipping with Microsoft Office 2003. |
Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: E-Forms Are Almost Ready for Primetime Article by Doug Henschen: If you developed your impression of electronic forms products three years ago, it is time to look again. |
Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Analysis: Adobe Upgrade Steps Up BPM Competition Adobe today released significant enhancements to its Adobe LiveCycle server platform, including a new component-based workflow and embedded business activity monitoring capabilities aimed at "closed-loop" process improvement. |
XML busy under the hood of new Adobe servers- ADTmag.com XML technology continues to contribute to advances in corporate computing. One of the latest examples comes from Adobe, which has just unleashed a new set of servers. Article is from October 2002, but a good primer of Adobe's server approach. |
Planet PDF - XML & PDF: Competitors or Complementary? Do XML and PDF compete or are they complementary? In many cases, PDF and XML work in conjunction and are complementary. But that's not always the case. For instance, at our eForms summit, different companies will show different XML solutions for eForms, which either (also) focus on PDF (Adobe's forthcoming Forms Designer product) or are solely based on XML (W3C's new XForm standard; Microsoft's InfoPath product). |
Adobe Acrobat 7.0 review by PC Magazine Acrobat 7.0 includes more than enough new conveniences to justify an upgrade. From the article" "By Edward Mendelson and Richard V. Dragan
Acrobat has become an indispensable tool for creating and distributing digital documents, but users have griped about its sometimes sluggish speed. Well, Adobe Acrobat 7.0 (which runs only under Windows 2000 SP2, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003) is finally as fast as it ought to be—and its startling increase in speed in loading and displaying PDF files is only one of many reasons to upgrade to the latest version." |
EContentMag.com: Acrobat Scores Again... In a Changing Game Excellent brief analysis from Bob Boeri on the release of Acrobat 6.0 and what its new feature set means for users of PDF. Also offers some brief thoughts on Acrobat vs. InfoPath and also Acrobat vs. SVG. |
From Jon Udell's Blog: A Preview of Adobe Designer 6.0 Jon has a great take on InfoPath and Adobe's efforts. Here he labels Adobe Designer 6.0 as "Infopath for PDF." |
Cap Ventures analysis of Acrobat 6 This is a useful discussion of Acrobat and its role in the enterprise. To quote, "Acrobat 6.0 is an impressive release. The new capabilities are effectively built into the product, offering a tighter integration with other desktop tools — specifically Microsoft Office, Outlook, Project, and Internet Explorer. This progression is natural, and required to make Acrobat and PDF more of a core component of the enterprise desktop." |
From Informit.comTwelve Things I Hate About Microsoft Office > Who You Gonna Call? From the Web Site: Tom Bunzel makes a good part of his living using, teaching, and writing about MS Office, and he has some definite opinions on the product suite. In this article, he offers some of his pet peeves, many of which readers may also share. If he seems a bit worked up about some of these issues, it's because, like you, he's used many different versions of the product for almost a decade. |
.NET Magazine - SQL Connection - Send Data Down the InfoPath InfoPath gives Office users a tool for generating well-formed, validated XML files. Get familiar with InfoPath's features and gotchas to decide if it can help your organization. |
Microsoft InfoPath article on Wikipedia Brief article (still a stub) as of March 28, 2006. |
Infopath hit with first virus - Computerworld A Trojan horse virus has been detected that targets Microsoft InfoPath, an application within the company's Office software suite. |
Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Introducing InfoPath The latest member of the Office family can help you manage your data. |
InfoPath 2003 article from The Open Sourcery From the article, "Microsoft developers have to tread very carefully. They want to meet their customers demands that their products be open and interoperable but they do not want to stray too far from the Windows Server and desktop core that is the wellspring source of Redmond's unrivalled profitability and huge $50B cash surplus. The company has appeared to hit on a compromise solution - data interoperability will be provided through XML and a few other well chosen data interchange formats. Remote access to data will be allowed to be delivered by MS developers through the Web Services mechanism not CORBA, not Direct-RPC, and definitely not J2EE. And in general, programming interoperability is firmly discouraged both on the desktop and through the Web Interface. Programming interoperability might make it too easy to move applications to other OS and thus Java, JavaScript, and other cross platform programming languages have been "proprietized" as in JavaScript to JScript; the wealth of VBscript clones to VBScript and VBA; and Java to C# among others. Thus InfoPath which delivers XML-based data interchange and interoperability on the Windows desktop is obviously of interest to see how and how well XML-based data interoperability will be delivered." |
From msdn.microsoft.com: Architecture of Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Discover the architecture of Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003, including how InfoPath supports structural editing, several levels of validation, loading and submitting of XML documents, and multiple views of the DOM tree. |
From Developer.com: Dynamically Data-bind in InfoPath A developer.com article by Thiru Thangarathinam. "In Part 1 of this article series, we looked at some of the powerful and compelling features of InfoPath 2003. In this installment, we will see how to create a dynamic data-bound InfoPath from an ASP.NET Web Service. We will also see how to customize the task pane by adding custom content that is relevant to the form that the user is filling out." |
Visual Studio Magazine - Use InfoPath With VS.NET 2003 InfoPath SP1 and the new .NET 2003 Toolkit let you implement business logic behind InfoPath forms with managed VB.NET or C# code instead of JScript or VBScript event handlers. |
www.devx.com: Introduction to Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 is a form creation program for seamless data integration with databases, Web services, XML, or any other XML-enabled system. Just drag and drop controls onto the InfoPath form—the result is a data entry form with advanced controls that conforms to Microsoft's interface standards, complete with Microsoft Office 2003 toolbars. |
O'Reilly Network: Getting Started with Microsoft InfoPath 2003 [Dec. 09, 2003] Wei-Meng Lee introduces newcomers to the power of InfoPath 2003 and shows how to build a simple form to start collecting data. InfoPath provides three ways to define the types of data you want to collect: using an XML Schema, a database, or a Web service. |
Jon Udell: First look at InfoPath This is a March 2003 article, so it is a little dated, but Udell is great and this is a very good "first look" that will help developers especially. |
From Database Journal: Creating a SQL Server User Interface with InfoPath When Office 2003 is released about a month from now, some ofthe versions will contain two new applications OneNote and InfoPath.Andy Novick shows how InfoPath can be used as a front end to a SQL Serverdatabase. |
InfoPath Review from Blogger Dave Burke As Dave writes in his blog, "Bringing Digital Order to an Analog World":
InfoPath is a cool tool in that it packages up XML data nice and tidy with its own schema, allowing the developer to do practically anything with that data he or she needs to do. I am totally impressed with how InfoPath "thinks XML."
My issue is with the user experience. I thought InfoPath would be a wonderful transitioning experience for my users as we move from web-based apps to rich-client winform apps in the months ahead. I read much about the 'rich InfoPath experience' and wanted to see it in action." |
How secure is Infopath? Was RE: How secure is XForms? from John Boyer on 2003-10-10 (www-forms@w3.or This is a thoughtful post from John Boyer, Senior Product Architect and Research Scientist with PureEdge Solutions. He discusses some of the security issues with InfoPath and XForms. The entire thread is of interest to everyone who has security requirements in their application. |
SVG and XForms: A primer from IBM DeveloperWorks Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and XForms are two blossoming technologies that handle what may appear to be two different facets of electronic document publishing. This primer provides an overview of the two technologies and highlights the potential synergies between them. |
XML.com: Migrating to XForms Paul Sobocinski explains how to start using XForms now by showing PHP code that will convert from XHTML to XForms and back to XHTML. |
Why XForms? by Elliotte Rusty Harold This article explains the problems XForms are intended to solve, including internationalization, accessibility, and device independence. If those problems are your problems too, then XForms is worth further investigation. If those aren't your problems, then you may be better served by simpler solutions. Ultimately, the decision is yours. |
XForms and OpenDocument in OpenOffice.org Article by J. David Eisenberg |
Using XForms in Office Applications By Lars Oppermann of Sun.
From the abstract: This paper addresses the use of the W3C XForms standard in a general-purpose office application.
XForms allows for the manipulation and processing of highly structured XML content while
providing means of input validation and business logic inside the form. Through the integration of
XForms support into an office application, the user is enabled to work with arbitrarily structured
XML data in a convenient and well-known environment.
The XForms integration into StarOffice and OpenOffice.org that the author shows here supports the
user in the design phase of the form, as well as during data entry and validation in the deployed form. |
XML.com: Migrating to XForms Paul Sobocinski explains how to start using XForms now by showing PHP code that will convert from XHTML to XForms and back to XHTML. |
Forms that work on both the Web and the desktop Network World article by Steve Blass. Are tools available that can deploy the same data collection forms to the Web and desktop? Both sets should be generated from a single source model, and the desktop version should be able to post data to the same back end used by the Web version. |
XForms meets Ajax: Can they get along? The latest W3C release of XForms looks to complement Ajax, By Rich Seeley, News Writer, SearchWebServices.com. Appeared 21 Mar 2006. |
Understanding XForms: The Model - O'Reilly XML Blog Another fine article from Kurt Cagle, published March 26, 2006. |
EclipseZone - Open source Eclipse/SWT XForms engine released Nuxeo has released the source code for an open source XForms engine for SWT and Eclipse, that will be used in the Apogee project to build rich client applications for collaboration and ECM. |
Why XForms Matter, Revisited - O'Reilly XML Blog Excellent article, published 3/19/2006. By Kurt Cagle. |
DDJ > XForms & Cause-and-Effect Programming XForms is a clean architecture for separating presentation, user interface, and business processing models. |
SitePoint Blogs » Cross-browser XForms Article by Kevin Yank |
XML & Web Services Magazine – XForms for Managing Forms-Based Data Imagine the joys of dispensing with masses of Java code dedicated to data validation and forms management. XForms, a draft W3C standard, defines a mini XML-based programming language that simplifies data-entry implementations dramatically. |
XML.com: Extending SVG for XForms This month's SVG column, the first of a two-part series, explains the first steps in using SVG, CSS, and EcmaScript to build XForms applications. |
XML.com: XML Forms, Web Services and Apache Cocoon Often, server side business logic is invariant in regard to the client device. Ivelin Ivanov shows how the Cocoon XMLForm framework addresses the concern of separating the purpose from the presentation of a form, maximizing its reusability for a variety... |
XML.com: Forming Opinions In this April 2005 latest XML-Deviant column, Micah Dubinko takes an initial look at Web Forms 2.0. |
Using XForms with standard Web browsers Column by Steve Blass in which he answers the following reader query: I'd like to replace some HTML form pages with XHTML pages containing XForms, but I need to know how to deliver XForm capabilities to end user Web browsers. |
From devx.com: Create Mobile Applications with IBM Forms for Mobile Devices The power of Web forms has brought no-code solutions to data management applications. Find out how a new preview technology from IBM alphaWorks helps you extend data management apps into the mobile arena. |
Industry Standard: Free Your Code with XForms Originally published in the May-June issue of Oracle Magazine, now resides on Oracle's Web site. |
www.devx.com: The Secret Life of XForms XForms recently reached the W3C's Candidate Recommendation status—and you need to know about it—because XForms isn't a form description language, it's a language for describing applications in a platform-independent way. Best of all, it integrates easily with technologies you already know, such as XHTML, XPath, SVG, and CSS. |
SVG and XForms: A primer A useful article by Antoine Quint. Abstract:
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and XForms are two blossoming technologies that handle what may appear to be two different facets of electronic document publishing. This primer provides an overview of the two technologies and highlights the potential synergies between them. |
SVG and XForms: Rendering Custom Content Another very good article by Antoine Quint for IBM's developerWorks. The first Scalable Vector Graphics specification (SVG 1.0) laid the standard for XML-expressed two-dimensional interactive and animated graphics. Since then, the W3C SVG Working Group has focused on enhancing features that ease the use of SVG for Web and desktop application development. A promising SVG 1.2 feature is Rendering Custom Content (RCC) -- it offers a clean XML-centric extension mechanism to mix and match different XML namespaces within an SVG document. This article takes you through the creation of a simple push-button widget while introducing the RCC mechanism. |
Perfect Partner for Web Services: Getting to Know XForms @ SYS-CON ITALIA HTML forms are one of the best-known techniques for gathering data from a user and submitting that data to a server. However, HTML forms are only simple tools and don't natively support some of the features needed by current Web applications such as sophisticated data validation. Also, the user interface created by HTML forms is essentially hard coded for one device, meaning the same form can't be easily re-tasked for, say, PDAs or mobile phones. |
XML-Journal - Hands-on XForms A short but informative article written by Micah Dubinko. |
XML.com: What Are XForms? [Sep. 11, 2002] HTML forms have long been a weak link in web interfaces -- now XML comes to the rescue with XForms, the W3C's new web forms technology. Update: 9/11/2002 |
XML.com: Getting Started with XForms [Dec. 30, 2003] Bob DuCharme provides an implementation-centered guide to using XForms, the new W3C forms technology for the web. |
XForms Basics XForms Basics article from devshed.com written by Harish Kamath. |
Understanding XML: XForms and Blogging and FO, Oh My! Article from Kurt Cagle's blog, Understanding XML |
TopXML : Understanding XForms An excerpt from New Riders XHTML by Chelsea Valentine and Chris Minnick. |
Prepare for the transition from HTML forms to XForms - Builder UK From uk.builder.com, an article by Tony Patton: XForms are an XML-based replacement for conventional HTML Web forms. Learn about the basic elements of XForms and see how to implement them in a standard Web form. |
PHP: Dealing with XForms - Manual Brief tutorial article with code samples from phpbuilder.com. |
Article from IBM.com: Get ready for XForms Traditional HTML forms violate many of the tenets of good markup language design, frequently mixing presentation and data. In this article, Joel Rivera and Len Taing introduce you to XForms, an extension of XHTML that represents the next generation of Web forms. Though XForms is still in an embryonic state, it holds great promise: For instance, a form written with XForms can be written once and displayed in an optimal ways on several different platforms. Once you finish reading this article, you'll have a head start on this important emerging XML technology. |
XML excises the Army's ancient forms system From Government Computer News: When the Army embarked late last year on a mission to overhaul its antiquated approach to managing forms, officials turned to Extensible Markup Language. |
On form? Article About XForms from Infoconomy.com W3C's Xforms standard has arrived. But will it take off when both Microsoft and Adobe have such a grip on the market? |
Doug Tidwell Doug Tidwell is a technology evangelist at IBM who focuses on technologies such as XML, XSLT, and XForms. |
IBM developerWorks : Blogs : Workplace Forms and Next Generation Web Applications Workplace Forms and Next Generation Web Applications by John Boyer, a Senior Product Architect for IBM Workplace Forms. He has co-authored and edited numerous W3C standards and is currently co-chair of the XForms working group. In 2001, John earned a Ph.D. in computer science, and he has published numerous journal, conference and professional papers on topics ranging from algorithmics to computer security to XML-related technologies. |
blogfour Blog by Allan Beaufour Larsen, member of the W3C's Xforms Committee and a former developer for Novell Denmark, until they closed the department. Now with Fundación CTIC (in Gijón, Spain) and implementing XForms for Firefox. |
Pashman's InfoPath Goldmine Microsoft Developer Network Blog. "This is where Tim Pash posts all of the juicy nuggets of stuff on how to get the job done using InfoPath." Launched in October 2005, was very quiet for a while. |
billtrippe.com billtrippe.com is a blog by Bill Trippe. It combines two previously existing blogs--Ideas in Technology and Publishing, and A Thousand Furnished Rooms. The technical entries touch on content management, XML, syndication, digital rights management, and electronic publishing technology. The more personal entries include narrative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and political and personal commentary. |
Understanding XML Kurt Cagle's blog. |
XForms Everywhere Blog from Orbeon, software company that produces Orbeon Presentation Server |
XForms and Internet Applications Blog by Mark Birbeck. Mark is the founding director of x-port.net Ltd., the company behind formsPlayer. He has over 20 years experience in software development, and has contributed to books and written articles on XForms, RDF, and XML. He is an Invited Expert on both the XForms and HTML W3C Working Groups. |
Gilbane Report Blog: eForms Archives eForms-related entries from the Gilbane Report blog. |
Electronic Forms blog by Christophe Dumonet Christophe is general manager of Unique World Software, which makes the InfoView product line. |
Push Button Paradise Weblog of Micah Dubinko, aka MJD, who is one of the key people behind XForms. |
Microsoft, Adobe & W3C to Shake Up Electronic Forms Market Gilbane Report article I wrote at the time InfoPath 1.0 came out. |
Seybold Report: Suddenly , E-Forms Matter Electronic forms have long resided in a sleepy corner of the content-management landscape, perched somewhere between scan-and-capture applications and records management. Indeed, only recently have content-management vendors and analysts broadened the definition of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) to include the comparatively fixed content assets in applications such as records management and forms processing. As a result, the feature set and functionality of electronic forms have never been high on end users' lists for content-management solutions. |
Transform Magazine - Will XForms Matter? XML Answers Column. Introduction: XML was born when a bunch of very smart people realized that HTML, while easy to use and widely deployed, wasn't a robust enough technology to build the Web infrastructure and interfaces of the future. While there is still plenty of HTML around, many of the underpinnings of the Web are now based on XML.
Virtually every mid- to large-sized organization uses XML to store, transform or integrate various data sources that end up on the Web. The emerging XForms standard was born out of much the same motivation as the language on which it is based; a bunch of very smart people realized HTML-based forms were not a long-term solution to building user interfaces and data collection and validation tools for the Web. As a result, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) established a forms working group years ago. Their first formal recommendation, XForms 1.0, was issued in November. |
Ideas in Technology and Publishing: Enter InfoPath From my blog. |
Yahoo Group: formsPlayer Yahoo formsPlayer Group: "Area for discussion of x-port's formsPlayer software, an XForms processor that runs inside Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6. This group is for bug reports, usage queries and tips." |
Yahoo Group: XForms Yahoo group: "The aim of this group is to provide a forum for discussion of the potentially important technology XForms." |
Yahoo Groups: InfoPath Yahoo group dedicated to InfoPath. Moderated by author Andrew Watt. |
Adobe Designer - User to User Forums (Requires Free Registration) This is an online forum for users of the Adobe Designer software. The forum for Adobe Designer 6 had 89 topics as of 9/13/04. |
www-forms@w3.org Mail Archives Mail archives for the eForms mailing list at the World Wide Web Consortium. |
Discussions in InfoPath General General InfoPath newsgroup hosted at Microsoft Developer Network. |
Amazon aStore - Acrobat Books, Software, and Resources Acrobat 8 brings significant new functionality to the cornerstone software application from Adobe. Acrobat 8 Professional software enables business professionals to reliably create, combine, and control Adobe PDF documents for easy, more secure distribution, collaboration, and data collection. This site includes books, software, and other resources for Acrobat users and developers. |
InfoPath Developer Portal Part of Microsoft TechNet |
Xforms.org - Home Xforms.org the home of Xforms, billed as "The Nexus for Intelligent Web Apps" |
Office Developer Center: InfoPath Community Office Developer Center: Join the InfoPath development community with blogs, newsgroups, videos, newsletters, and third-party resources. |
BPMInstitute.org for Business Process Management (BPM) Professionals BPMInstitute.org is a peer-to-peer exchange for business process management professionals and is hosted by BrainStorm a trusted source of unbiased information and education since 1997. |
Business Process Modeling Initiative (BPMI.org) The Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org) works on standards for the management of business processes that span multiple applications, corporate departments, and business partners |
BFMA International From their Web site: BFMA, or the Business Forms Management Association, formed 45 years ago to address the unique educational and networking needs of forms designers and managers. With today’s technology, the forms function has broadened in scope to include everything from traditional paper forms to electronic data capture and the databases and applications that support it. Even after 45 years, you still won’t find such form-focused resources available from any other group. |
InfoPath Dev InfoPathDev.com is billed as the source for all of your Microsoft Office InfoPath development needs |
Cover Pages: XML and Forms Robin Cover maintains an excellent portal of resources on XML. This is the section of the portal that deals with XML and Forms. |
Bruce Silver Associates Bruce is a contributing editor to Transform Magazine and an expert in enterprise content management and business process management. Bruce's site has a lot of useful content. |
PDF zone - The online authority for PDF and Adobe Acrobat professionals PDF zone, the online authority for PDF, Adobe Acrobat and document management professionals, provides information resources about all aspects of PDF and Adobe Acrobat, including conversion, creation, forms, prepress and data extraction through a variety of resources, such as news, tips, techniques, a buyer's guide toolbox and best practices. |
Planet PDF - A world of Adobe Acrobat PDF news, tools, tips and resources Planet PDF is an independent global resource for Adobe Acrobat & PDF products, tools, information, tips, free software demos and user discussion forums. |
Eforms.com This is a link to Eforms.com, billed as "Your directory for Eform related companies." It seems to be a good listing of comapnies, though I am not sure yet how comprehensive or up to date it is. Includes some separate lists of Dutch and French eForms companies, but also has some dead links. |
From XTech 2006: XHTML2 & XForms Presentation by Steven Pemberton, XHTML and XForms guru. Includes some great examples from the CSS Zen Garden. |
E-Forms Applications Use of XML Standards E-Forms for e-Gov: The Use of XML Standards-based Applications: Discussion with and Presentation to the OMB G2G Portfolio Manager and FEA-PMO by the XML Web Services Working Group, http://web-services.gov, February 6, 2003, 8:30-10 a.m. |
XML Technologies W3C XForms Functionality in OpenOffice.org Presentation by Daniel Vogelheim, OpenOffice developer from Sun Microsystems. |
XForms Presentation by Elliotte Rusty Harold Elliotte Rusty Harold's XForms presentation at the March 2005 Software Development Conference and Expo |
Mozilla XForms presentation from OSDC By Kevin Yank. Includes slides and audio (MP3). "Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Open Source Developer Conference about Mozilla XForms. Long-time readers of the Tech Times and this blog will remember my coverage of the original spec, my analysis of why XForms adoption was moving so slowly, and more recently my look at how to write cross-browser XForms. The talk was the next stage in my exploration of XForms, pushing the limits of what can be done with the latest preview of the Mozilla extension." |
IBM Webinar: Enriching the user experience through XML Intelligent Documents (aka eForms) Enriching the user experience through XML Intelligent Documents (aka eForms); 06 December, 2005; Discover why the Securities & Exchange Commission converted to eForms. (From their Web site: "Through the acquisition of PureEdge Solutions, IBM is offering a new component technology to the ISV community called XML Intelligent Documents or eForms. Embedded into your go-to-market software solution, this technology enables ISVs to provide their customers with a richer user experience and business processes that meet security regulations now and in the future.") |
XML , XForms and Standards based solutions Presentation about XFDL, the Extensible Forms Description Language, which is the language behind the XML forms technology from PureEdge. PureEdge was acquired by IBM in July of 2005. |
E-Forms Applications Use of XML Standards E-Forms for e-Gov: The Use of XML Standards-based Applications, Discussion with and Presentation to the OMB G2G Portfolio Manager and FEA-PMO by the XML Web Services Working Group (http://web-services.gov), February 6, 2003, 8:30-10 a.m. |
The State of the eForms Market "XML Meets Forms" presentation by Micah Dubinko. |
Enriching the user experience through XML Intelligent Documents (aka eForms) Enriching the user experience through XML Intelligent Documents (aka eForms); 06 December, 2005; Discover why the Securities & Exchange Commission converted to eForms. |
XForms: Improving the Web Forms Experience: User Experience 2004 Tutorial Highlights a one-day tutorial on X-Forms that will be offered by Steven Pemberton in Las Vegas (October, 2004) and Amsterdam (November, 2004). Part of the User Experience 2004 conference. |
From Seybold Europe 2004: The State of the eForms Market I gave my opening presentation at the Seybold eForms summit. It went well, though I have to admit to being a bit in awe of the audience, which included many of the real thinkers and doers in the XHTML and eForms world. But my job was to lay the groundwork for the rest of the day, and the feedback was positive. |
eForms Presentation by Chuck Myers from Adobe This talk was delivered at the 2004 Gilbane Conference on Content Management in Los Angeles. It includes an excellent overview of eForms as a technology and then discusses the Adobe product offerings. |
eForms Presentation by Micah Dubinko of the XForms Committee and Verity This talk was delivered at the 2004 Gilbane Conference on Content Management in Los Angeles. It includes a discussion of standards-based approaches to technologies such as eForms. |
eForms/InfoPath Presentation by Bill Rogers of Ektron This talk was delivered at the 2004 Gilbane Conference on Content Management in Los Angeles. Bill pinch-hit at the last minute and did a nice job of explaining InfoPath as an eForms technology. |
Michah Dubinko Presentation, XML meets Forms Presentation on eForms given at GTC West 2002. |
USAF eForms Program Briefing USAF e-Forms Program Briefing to the Federal XML Working Group, Feb 19th , 2003. Discusses their use of the XML eForms technology from PureEdge. |
Amazon.com: Acrobat 8 Professional Essential Training by Brian Wood Acrobat 8 Professional Essential Training by Brian Wood (CD-ROM) |
Amazon.com: Acrobat 8 Professional Beyond the Basics by Brian Wood Acrobat 8 Professional Beyond the Basics by Brian Wood (CD-ROM) |
Windows SharePoint Services Platform 2007 Office System Video From the Microsoft Office System Developers Conference 2006, a series of developer-oriented videos to view conference breakout sessions |
Microsoft Office Assistance: Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Start page for InfoPath support includes a number of tutorials. |
Courseware: Microsoft InfoPath 2003: Creating InfoPath Forms This is a computer-based training course offered by ElementK. I am not familiar with this class, but I do know of their work, and they generally do a good job with this level of programming. The link is to the page in their course catalog. For general information about ElementK, see: http://elementk.com |
XForms Tutorial High-level tutorial on XForms. |
XForms Quick Reference By Steven Pemberton of the W3C. |
XForms Institute: Interactive W3C XForms Tutorial An interactive tutorial on W3C XForms and related technology. Created by XForms guru and author Micah Dubinko. The Web site is based in part on Micah's book, XForms Essentials. |
XForms for HTML Authors, Part 2 By Steven Pemberton of the W3C |
XForms for HTML Authors, Part 1 By Steven Pemberton of the W3C. |
XForms basics-Learn the essentials for creating the next generation of forms XForms provides a host of new capabilities for Web authors and developers who want to create Web forms that include rich interactive experiences while still maintaining many of the familiar aspects of creating forms in HTML. This article explains the basics of creating an XForms form, including the structure of the form itself; basic controls, or fields; and the most common submission options. |
TopXML : Understanding XForms An excerpt from New Riders XHTML by Chelsea Valentine and Chris Minnick. |
Mozilla XForms: An Introduction Good high-level introduction, by Kevin Yank of SitePoint Pty. Ltd. |
Introduction to XForms, Part 3: Using actions and events XForms is the next generation of Web-based data processing. It replaces traditional HTML forms with an XML data model and presentation elements. In this three-part series, you'll be introduced to XForms and its capabilities, including the basic XForms model and form, the various types of controls, and basic and advanced form submission. This article, the third of a three-part series, shows you how to use actions and events with XForms, and how to control the format of the form's output. |
Introduction to XForms, Part 2: Forms, models, controls, and submission actions XForms is the next generation of Web-based data processing. It replaces traditional HTML forms with an XML data model and presentation elements. In this three-part series, you'll be introduced to XForms and its capabilities, including the basic XForms model and form, the various types of controls, and basic and advanced form submission. This article, the second of a three-part series, focuses on creating an XForms-based form using any of the available controls, as well as creating a data model. |
Introduction to XForms, Part 1: The new Web standard for forms XForms is the next generation of Web-based data processing. It replaces traditional HTML forms with an XML data model and presentation elements. In this three-part series, you'll be introduced to XForms and its capabilities, including the basic XForms model and form, the various types of controls, and basic and advanced form submission. This article covers how XForms actually works, and shows you how to set up XForms with Firefox and Internet Explorer so that you can view your XForms samples. |
Introduction to XForms | skimstone Great introduction to XForms by expert Mark Birbeck. |
Amazon.com: Adobe Acrobat 8 PDF Bible: Books: Ted Padova Adobe Acrobat 8 PDF Bible by Ted Padova |
Amazon.com: Adobe Acrobat 8 in the Office: Books: Donna L. Baker Adobe Acrobat 8 in the Office: Books: Donna L. Baker by Donna L. Baker |
Amazon.com: Adobe Acrobat 8 How-Tos: 125 Essential Techniques: Books: Donna L. Baker Adobe Acrobat 8 How-Tos: 125 Essential Techniques: Books: Donna L. Baker by Donna L. Baker |
Amazon.com: Adobe Acrobat 8 Classroom in a Book: Books: Adobe Creative Team Adobe Acrobat 8 Classroom in a Book: Books: Adobe Creative Team by Adobe Creative Team |
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 SP-1 Examples, Book, and Articles The OakLeaf Systems Web site offers examples of production-grade XML Web services for retrieving and updating data in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 databases. Visual Studio .NET's ASP.NET and Visual Basic .NET generate the site's Web pages and services. The examples include services that create and retrieve XML documents persisted in a 1-GB database and transform the XML content to well-formed XHTML for presentation. A subsite dedicated to Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 describes use of Visual Basic .NET managed code behind InfoPath 2003 SP-1 forms. |
Introducing Microsoft® Office InfoPath™ 2003 Upcoming book from Microsoft Press (due out 5/26/04): Marketing Blurb: Get up to speed with Microsoft Office InfoPath—and revolutionize the way your organization gathers, processes, and analyzes information. This tutorial illuminates key features and demonstrates how to design, build, and use effective InfoPath forms. |
Amazon.com:
Developing Solutions with Microsoft InfoPath by Vani Mandav Amazon.com: Developing Solutions with Microsoft InfoPath(TM) (Pro - Developer): Books: Vani Mandava Teredesai,Patrick Halstead,Matthew Blain by Vani Mandava Teredesai,Patrick Halstead,Matthew Blain |
Amazon.com: Programming Microsoft InfoPath: Thom Robbins Amazon.com: Programming Microsoft InfoPath (Programming Series) (Programming Series): Books: Thom Robbins by Thom Robbins |
Amazon.com: Books: Professional InfoPath 2003 Professional InfoPath 2003, Ian Williams, Pierre Greborio. From the back cover: "Microsoft InfoPath 2003 helps developers tackle forms-based information-gathering with the full range of XML technologies. This book quickly guides experienced Office and XML developers through InfoPath fundamentals, including XML form templates architecture, form definition file structure, available external data sources, and backend services. From there, you’ll delve into validation and updating forms, both during development and as business needs change. Finally, you’ll examine the InfoPath security model, learning to implement and deploy trusted forms.
The second part of this book is an intensive case study covering metadata processing, exporting XML data to Excel for analysis, and much more." |
Amazon.com: Books: How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 (How to Do Everything) As quoted from Amazon.com:
"Use this amazingly practical and powerful Microsoft Office application like a pro with help from this all-inclusive guide. You’ll learn how to design and customize electronic forms and easily integrate form data into a wide variety of systems and applications. Create simple to complex forms and master the built-in formatting options including layout tables, borders, color schemes, and more. Filled with step-by-step essentials and real-world examples, this book shows you how to take full advantage of InfoPath’s key features so you can save time and streamline the information-gathering process." |
XForms Essentials Online The complete online version of Micah Dubinko's book. |
Sample Chapter from XForms: XML Powered Web Forms By T. Raman.Sample Chapter is provided courtesy of Addison Wesley Professional. |
Amazon.com: XForms: XML Powered Web Forms: Books: T. V. Raman Amazon.com: XForms: XML Powered Web Forms: Books: T. V. Raman by T. V. Raman. XForms—XML-powered Web forms—are set to replace HTML forms as the backbone of electronic commerce. XForms enable the creation and editing of structured XML content within a familiar Web browser environment, which is likely to play a key role in enabling simple browser-based access to Web services. XForms leverage the power of XML in modeling, collecting, and serializing user input. In this book, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XForms specification editor T. V. Raman explains how programmers can create durable and dependable feature-rich forms accessible from multiple platforms and devices and available in multiple languages and modes. |
Amazon.com: Books: XForms Essentials This is the first authoritative book on an important new topic. Dubinko is one of the primary contributors to the W3C working group, and the book has been reviewed extensively by his peers. |
Amazon.com: Microsoft InfoPath 2007: Software Purchase Microsoft InfoPath 2007 Software at Amazon.com |
Amazon.com: Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.0: Software Purchase Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.0: Software at Amazon.com |
Amazon.com: Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional: Software Purchase Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional at Amazon.com |
Amazon.com: Software: Microsoft InfoPath 2003 Purchase Microsoft InfoPath 2003 at Amazon.com. |
alphaWorks : IBM XML Forms Package A toolkit consisting of software components designed to showcase the possibilities presented by XForms, an emerging W3C standard (W3C Candidate Recommendation). |
The Forrester Wave: e-Forms Software, Q2 2006 "Forrester evaluated five e-forms software vendors across approximately 100 criteria and found that Adobe and IBM are the clear market leaders… Adobe is a Leader, bringing together a user-friendly forms design environment with the ubiquitous Acrobat Reader rich client." |
XForms 1.0 (Second Edition) W3C Home Page for the XForms specification. |
E-Forms for E-Gov Final Report In December 2002, the E-Gov office of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested the Chief Information Officer Council (CIOC) to assess how electronic forms (e-forms) technologies and standards could be leveraged to accomplish E-Gov program goals. The XML Web Services Working Group (XML WS-WG), under the leadership of Brand Neimann, accepted this task, and stood up the "E-Forms for E-Gov" pilot in February 2003. The primary goal of the pilot is to determine best practices, and identify business metrics for changing to an e-forms process to support GPEA, the President's E-Gov mandate, and the Performance Reference Model (PRM) required by the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA). This paper represents the culmination of the pilot team's work. |
Formatta E-Forms Manager Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, Formatta Corporation provides e-form solutions that enable businesses and government to securely capture and transfer electronic data using a familiar interface—a form. Billed as scure XML E-forms with no user license fees |
Microsoft Office Online -- Forms Server From the Web Site: Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 provides scalable, standards-based electronic forms solutions with enhanced security that can help your organization to extend the reach of forms-driven business processes to anyone with a Web browser.
Office Forms Server 2007 is a new server offering in the Microsoft Office system. It is a standalone server that delivers new Microsoft Office InfoPath Forms Services, which is also available in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This new technology uses server-based electronic forms to streamline business processes and make data collection, distribution, and integration more cost-effective than with paper-based forms. |
Jadu XForms From their Web site: Jadu XForms Standard delivers compliance with the w3c's XForms specifications as well as full compliance with web standards for accessibility and design. Find out more about Jadu XForms Standard. The Jadu XForms Professional module gives you all the benefits of the standard Jadu XForms module - but with some useful enhancements for creating truly sophisticated forms. Find out more about Jadu XForms Professional... |
Concentré Xml Tools "Concentré" is a Xforms/Xml framework based on 3 differents projects : xslt2xforms, libxforms and on a MVC php 5 framework. The objective is to provide a complete xforms/xml toolbox based only on w3c standards. Software is hosted at SourceForge, the world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications |
Chibacon - Home From their Web site: Chibacon is a service company offering training, consulting and development of advanced XML and Java solutions. As founders and maintainers of the Open Source Chiba project Chibacon provides one of the world-wide leading XForms implementations which may be used either server- or client-side. With years of experience in these technologies our customers get first-hand knowledge directly from the source. |
Orbeon - Form-based Web Applications Done the Right Way Orbeon delivers and supports Orbeon PresentationServer (OPS), an open source, standard-based forms solution. |
Chiba Home Chiba is an Open Source Java Implementation of the W3C XForms standard 'that represents the next generation of forms for the Web'.
Chiba comes as a typical JavaBean and is intended to be used/integrated in your Client- and/or Server-side applications. |
Mozilla XForms Project Welcome to the Mozilla XForms Project. The goal of this project is to implement the W3C XForms 1.0 recommendation in Mozilla as an extension. The extension aims to work with all Mozilla projects building on the Mozilla platform, like Firefox, SeaMonkey, XULRunner, etc. |
SkyXoft Procx and XForms From their Web site:
* The first workflow made for business users
* Integration with SharePoint, InfoPath and XForms
* Get your solution with these services offering:
o Installation
o Process creation
o Form creation
o Training
* See the XForm benefits and movie |
NetKernel - Service Oriented MicroKernel and XML Application Server From their Web site: 1060 NetKernel originated from Hewlett Packard Laboratories out of the need to solve the fundamental economic limits of existing approaches to developing complex systems. Through its ability to manage complexity, NetKernel makes possible systems that would previously have been economically unfeasible and enables the next generation of significantly more ambitious systems in a timely and quality focused manner.
Service Oriented Microkernel: 1060 NetKernel applies the principles of service oriented design across every aspect of the platform. Where the industry has embraced SOA for distributed systems, NetKernel applies these same principles inwards - down to the finest granularity of individual software components.
XML Application Server: 1060 NetKernel Standard Edition provides 100s of XML technologies as simple services which together create a powerful XML application server. NetKernel provides the infrastructure that developers need to rapidly build powerful XML message processing systems with the capabilities to eliminate the complexity, performance and management challenges of processing XML. You can think of the NetKernel XML tools as like the line-based ASCII tools (sed, awk, grep etc etc) provided with Unix - NetKernel is not limited to XML processing, XML is just a common and convenient datatype. |
Novell and XForms Technology Novell XForms Technology Preview, part of the Novell exteNd suite. |
FormFaces.com XForms vendor that "proves that all of XForms' functionality can be accomplished in today's web browser with zero server-side processing or plug-ins, maximiing authoring simplicity and architecture flexibility. |
iMarkup Server - eForms, BPM and Workflow Automation iMarkup Solutions provides collaboration and workflow solutions for documents, eForms, and digital content. |
eTouch eForms From their Web site: "eTouch eForms Solution is a powerful forms and process automation solution. Multiple form clients such as Adobe PDF, XForms and HTML are supported, but internally the form and its associated data are managed as XML. Users can download, fill, save, digitally sign and submit electronic forms through a secure e-Submission gateway. Integration with webservices facilitates pre-filling and auto-filling of forms. The integrated eTouch Workflow Component enables these forms to be routed and processed via appropriate well defined business process workflows. Built-in tasks enable validation, transformation and complex processing of forms. The integrated Records Management component facilitates storage and versioning of the forms in both native(PDF) as well as XML format. The form data can also be integrated with other enterprise and legacy systems using XML connectors. The eForms solution comes integrated with multiple form clients like Adobe PDF, XForms and HTML." |
EMC Documentum Forms Processing From their Web site, "This joint solution helps you create native forms that can serve as custom user interfaces for business processes, for template-based creation of XML data, or as a customer-user interfaces for capturing Documentum object properties. Integration with Adobe LifeCycle Forms allows you to create your own forms directly within the EMC Documentum repository. And integration with Captiva FormWare enables you to automate the capture of images and data from paper forms then extract critical information efficiently and accurately." |
Ephox: Solutions for Forms-based XML Authoring From their web site, " The EditLive! for XML editor control provides users with a form-based interface for editing XML documents. Intelligent documents with embedded validation and visual queues ensure valid XML is produced without the user requiring any knowledge of XML standards. The comprehensive rich text functionality of EditLive! for XML ensures that users can easily create complex content including tables, images, lists and complex XML structures all within a familiar word-processor interface." |
Novell XForms Strategy 2003 white paper from Novell outlining their strategy for XForms. |
Microsoft Office Developer Center: InfoPath Developer Portal Office Developer Center: Find InfoPath 2003 articles, SDKs, reference documentation, code samples, downloads, and resources. |
FormDocs for Windows Home page for FormDocs for Windows software. |
InfoView - Home InfoView, the Microsoft Office 2003 InfoPath web viewer, converts your InfoPath forms for the internet and provides a complete electronic forms solution to create, capture and process data from business partners, citizens and consumers |
iMarkup - Collaboration & Workflow Solutions for Digital Content iMarkup Solutions provides collaboration and workflow solutions for digital content and document management. |
Adobe Designer Home Page for Adobe Designer product. |
Microsoft Office Online: InfoPath Home page for Microsoft's InfoPath forms development product. As Microsoft bills it:
"Gather information flexibly and efficiently in rich, dynamic forms and more effectively share, reuse, and repurpose information throughout your team or organization. InfoPath 2003 helps improve collaboration and decision-making to positively impact your business.
Information collected with InfoPath 2003 can be integrated with a broad range of business processes because InfoPath 2003 supports any customer-defined Extensible Markup Language (XML) schema and integrates with Web services. As a result, InfoPath 2003 can help you connect directly to organizational information and then act on it, which leads to greater business impact." |
LiquidOffice and Related Products at Autonomy Home page for Content Capture and Business Process Automation Products (nee Cardiff). |
IBM Workplace Forms Home page for the IBM eForms technology, an XML forms engine and platform that was formerly marketed by PureEdge. |
FileNet eForms Content management vendor FileNet bought Shana, a maker of electronic forms software, in April of 2003. The purchase boosted FileNet's presence in the eforms market, but the acquisition seems to have been outpaced by more generic efforts such as those from Adobe and Microsoft. |
Nuance - OmniForm Home page forNuance, formerly ScanSoft, which makes a broad array of productivity tools including several tools for electronic forms creation, including OmniForm. To quote from the Web site:
"OmniForm Premium 5.0 is a complete solution that enables organizations to automate forms filling and data management. It is specifically designed to assist everyone in your organization that needs to design, distribute and fill out forms, and manage form data." |
Texcel FormBridge Home page for Texcel, maker of FormBridge software. A competitor to ScanSoft's OmniForm products, FormBridge automates conversion of forms and documents to electronic forms in LiquidOffice, PureEdge, JetForm, and FormFlow 99. |
XML.com: Ten Favorite XForms Engines [Sep. 10, 2003] Micah Dubinko, the author of O'Reilly's XForms Essentials describes ten software packages that implement the W3C's XForms specification, seen as the XML-friendly successor to HTML forms. |
XFormation Home page for the UK XForms vendor, XFormation. XFormation allows users to rapidly design, develop, manage and debug XForms. According to their web site: XFormation Version 1.0 Standard Edition incorporating formsPlayer 1.0 provides the ability to rapidly design, develop, manage and debug XForms. This powerful tool will revolutionise the development of web forms and provide the vehicle needed to make the W3C XForms standard a reality. |
formsPlayer - The XForms Toolkit Home page for the London XForms vendor x-port. Their platform is formsPlayer, which they bill as "a complete implementation of the W3C XForms specification." They also have a product XFormations, an Xforms Editor, which can be downloaded for a 30-day trial. |
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