Micah Dubinko is a senior software engineer in Phoenix, Arizona, working for Cardiff Software in San Diego. He has an extensive cross-platform development background specializing in electronic forms systems. Micah is an editor of the W3C XForms specification, and has written numerous articles as well as the O’Reilly book XForms Essentials. He can frequently be found speaking at technical conferences and participating on various mailing lists.
Organizations have evolved a variety of systems to deal with the increasing
levels of information they must regularly process to remain competitive.
Business Process Management (BPM) systems presently take a wide variety of
shapes, often including large amounts of ad hoc scripting and one-off
implementations of business rules. Such systems tend to be developed
incrementally, and pose a significant obstacle to continued development and
maintenance.
A World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specification called XForms aims to change
this situation. This article compares XForms to ad hoc solutions to produce a
real-life application: the creation of XML purchase orders.
Note: The material in this article is adapted with permission from a chapter
of the book XForms Essentials, to be published by O'Reilly & Associates in
August 2003.
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Micah Dubinko is a senior software engineer in Phoenix, Arizona, working for Cardiff Software in San Diego. He has an extensive cross-platform development background specializing in electronic forms systems. Micah is an editor of the W3C XForms specification, and has written numerous articles as well as the O’Reilly book XForms Essentials. He can frequently be found speaking at technical conferences and participating on various mailing lists.
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