XForms: an alternative to Ajax?

Last year, we introduced server-side XForms as the most promising way of making XForms a short-term reality on the web.

In this year’s presentation, we discuss how this promise has materialized with hybrid Ajax-based open source implementations, and we demonstrate the most exciting capabilities of XForms running on today’s deployed web browsers.

We not only show how XForms fulfils its initial promise of becoming the next generation web forms, but also how it serves as a general-purpose dynamic user interface technology.

Finally, we show that hybrid XForms implementations effectively offer an abstraction layer over Ajax technologies, thereby greatly simplifying the implementation of common Ajax use-cases and giving XForms a place of choice in the “Web 2.0” ecosystem.