Origo XForms Industry Briefing: 6th April 2004

* Presenters:

Carol Blair, Focus
Rhydian Morris, Focus
David Boloker, IBM
Andrew Donoho, IBM
Roland Merrick, IBM
David Mott, IBM
Chris Hyde, Novell
Paul Pettitt, Origo
Mark Seaborne, Origo
David Green, Point Solutions
Dominic Blatchford, Point Solutions
Craig Sparkes, Polaris
Wai Lok Ip, Practiv
Steven Pemberton, W3C/CWI
Mark Birbeck, x-port

* Delegate Registration

09:00 - 09:30

* Agenda

* Keynote address

Paul Pettitt : The central role of the electronic form in e-Business; Origo's role in developing/adopting a platform for the Industry to build on and how XForms fits in with the Origo family of Standards.

09:30 - 09:40

* XForms, Design Principles

Steven Pemberton : Highlight some of the important use cases/business requirements that XForms meets, such as effective handling of repeating structures; strong data typing; dynamic; multiple submissions of form data; pre and cross population; device independence/accessability/focus on enriching the user experience.

09:40 - 10:20

* XForms as a platform for device and platform independent deployment [Part 1]

Roland Merrick : What is Device Independence? Why is it important? How can XForms help to achieve it. The cost of developing user interfaces to support the ever growing number and diversity of devices is often unaffordable. New approaches supported by new technologies are required, XForms is an important new technology to help achieve the goal of affordable development of applications that can be deployed to a wide range of devices.

10:20 - 10:40

* Break

10:40 - 11:10

* XForms as a platform for device and platform independent deployment [Part 2]

Roland Merrick

11:10 - 11:30

* Authoring XForms

Mark Birbeck : Covering Reuse/modularisation; ease of authoring (declarative, no scripting); reuse existing mainstream technologies/skills; use of Origo Schemas (Origo plans to develop XForms Models) and XForms as a platform for developing distributed applications.

11:30 - 12:10

* XForms Model

David Boloker : The XForms model in the enterprise.

12:10 - 12:40

* Lunch

12:40 - 13:30

* Case study

** Polaris - imarket Implementation

Craig Sparkes : Polaris
David Mott : IBM

13:30 - 14:00

* XForms Implementations

Mark Birbeck : FormsPlayer
Chris Hyde : Novell
Andrew Donoho : IBM
Mark Seaborne : The rest

14:00 - 14:30

** XForms Expert Panel

Mark Seaborne : As chair. Steven Pemberton, Roland Merrick, Mark Birbeck, Craig Sparkes, Chris Hyde

14:30 - 15:00

* Break

15:00 - 15:30

* XForms and ISML

** XForms development for ISML users

Carol Blair : The likely impact on organisations moving from ISML to XForms authoring

15:30 - 15:50

** XForms/ISML Interoperability, Migration and Products

David Green : Point Solutions
Wai Lok Ip : Practiv
Rhydian Morris : Focus

15:50 - 16:20

** Expert Panel of ISML Implementers

Mark Seaborne : As chair. Rhydian Morris, Dominic Blatchford, Wai Lok Ip

16:20 - 16:40