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Build a shopping cart application using XForms

XForms essentials to get started creating real-world XForms applications

Steve K Speicher (sspeiche@us.ibm.com), Senior Software Engineer, EMC
Steve Speicher is an IBM Senior Software Engineer working on emerging standards, both infrastructure based and industry verticals (healthcare). He is a member of the W3C Compound Document Formats Working Group, he led the development of the Compound XML Document Toolkit, and he uses Model-Driven Development (MDD) to improve the development of standards. He has previously worked on change and release management tools in the Rational division and in IBM internal tools.
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Keith Wells, Advisory Software Engineer, EMC
Keith Wells is a software engineer at IBM in Research Triangle Park, N.C. Mr. Wells has been involved with Emerging Technologies and the Emerging Technologies Toolkit for several years. Currently, he is exploring opportunities with compound documents, model-driven development, software standards, and XML-based technologies.
Jan J. Kratky, Senior Software Engineer, EMC
Jan Joseph Kratky, the development lead for the XML Forms Generator and Visual XForms Designer, is a member of the W3C XForms Working Group. A Sun Certified Java Programmer and Sun Certified Web Component Developer, Mr. Kratky has worked with Java technologies since 1997 and with Eclipse technologies since 2001. He is currently a software engineer with IBM Emerging Software Standards in Research Triangle Park, N.C.
Kevin Kelly, Senior Technical Staff Member, EMC
Kevin E. Kelly is an IBM senior technical staff member who works on emerging software standards for the Web and the healthcare industry. Mr. Kelly is chairman of the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) Compound Document Formats (CDF) Working Group, member of the W3C Hypertext Coordination Group, and has been a member of the W3C XForms Working Group. He is also a member of the Health Level 7 (HL7) organization and works on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiatives in HL7 and the Object Management Group (OMG). His focus is on developing open standards-based technologies for faster, more efficient standards adoption through XML-based and model-driven technologies.

Summary:  This tutorial focuses on key aspects of the W3C XForms 1.0 standard to produce a fully functional Web-based shopping cart. With this approach, the reader will get a good start at creating real-world applications with XForms, without having to learn the entire XForms specification.

Date:  12 Dec 2006
Level:  Intermediate

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