XForms & Web Based Java

[minestrone]

Anyone know much about this technology?

I'm looking at putting dynamic forms into a servlet based application I have, don't need to build the forms in my appication yet, happy to upload the XML which I am hoping I can create on some stand alone thingy.

Just want something very lightweight that I can build into my application, that will take the form, create the HTML, do validation then deal with the submission. I'm hoping this can all be done with taglibs in a few JSPs then a simple to use back end API.

looked at Orbeon but it is a big system and I think it could get messy for what I want to do, there were loads of dependencies.

[yasockie]

Just FYI I've built some pretty sophisticated XForms stuff for a couple of clients.
No Java tho, pure XML and RESTful interfaces, PM me if you need more detail.

Mind you the learning curve can be quite steep if you're not into XML or REST already but it's pretty powerful and declarative.
I don't want to discourage you needlessly, but for a 'quick hack' solution, this one may be a little bit over engineered.

[minestrone]

Sorry missed the reply, had some thinking time over this and I'll probably just hack it together at the moment with the form details held in the DB with some primitive form builder on the front end. I'll look again at xforms as I only have to provide a noddy version at the moment with a couple of forms but I think I will have to provide an all singing and dancing version later.

Last time I looked at xforms it was kind of basic.

Cheers