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IBM Forms for Mobile Devices
A mobile forms preview, based on XML technology, that provides a robust platform on which application developers can quickly create and deploy robust, forms-based enterprise applications on mobile devices.
Date Posted: December 10, 2004
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What is IBM Forms for Mobile Devices?
IBM Forms for Mobile Devices is a JavaTM-based, distributed software solution that, using XForms (a W3C standard for forms definition), enables pervasive mobile devices to access and complete business forms. This solution allows developers to quickly create, deploy, and use forms-based applications. The software demonstrates the ability of intermittently connected mobile devices to access and complete business forms that are stored locally on the mobile device. The completed forms are transferred to a server for additional processing when connectivity is available.
How does it work? In this preview, forms are pushed to mobile device clients and cached on the client. As the mobile device user completes forms and submits them, the completed form instances are queued for delivery to the server. When the server receives completed form instances, it dispatches them to the target back-end application to finish processing the form.
There are three major components in the IBM Forms for Mobile Devices preview. These include form develoment tools, a server subsystem, and a client subsystem. The forms development tools are a set of Eclipse-based wizards that allow developers to rapidly create forms applications. The server's database holds a number of forms to be made available to the clients. The server is configured to handle and process the data submitted by the forms on the client using built-in and user-contributed application connectors to access enterprise applications or business processes.
The included sample application, "Expense Form Approval," demonstrates a running forms-based application. No coding is required in order to run this sample.
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