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PROVO, Utah - February 27, 2003 — As part of its ongoing commitment to leading the development of cutting-edge Web application development standards, Novell will host the XForms Implementation Workshop for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on February 27 and 28 at its regional offices in Waltham, Mass. The Workshop is designed to give XForms developers the opportunity to exchange implementation experiences, hints and techniques, compare functionality and to discuss issues arising from the XForms 1.0 Candidate Recommendation 1.0 released in November of 2002. Novell was among the first companies to implement the XForms Candidate Recommendation coinciding with its release from the W3C. This event marked the first milestone in Novell's plans to deliver visual application development tools based on XForms for rapid application delivery in future release of its award-winning Web application development suite, Novell exteNd. In conjunction with the XForms Implementation Workshop being held this week, Novell will also release the latest version of its XForms technology preview, compliant with the W3C XForms 1.0 Test Suite. Novell's XForms technology preview is designed to give developers a hands-on introduction to the emerging XForms standard, for more information and to download the preview, please visit: http://www.novell.com/xforms. "Novell is committed to making it easier for developers to build standards-based Web applications by reducing the development effort required, and XForms is an important piece of our strategy," said David Litwack, Novell's senior vice president of Web application development. "In future releases of Novell exteNd, we will deliver drag-and-drop tools based on XForms that will dramatically reduce the amount of coding required to build interactive Web applications. This will bring J2EE development into the mainstream, enabling developers of all skill levels to develop standards-based business-critical Web applications in a fraction of the time as with other development environments." The goal of the workshop is to give developers an opportunity to show their XForms implementations to the Working Group, who may then determine both what has been implemented from the specification and what has yet to be successfully used. According to the guidelines established by the W3C, a standard - known at the W3C as a "Recommendation" - cannot be approved until there is a complete implementation of the Candidate Recommendation and every feature exists in at least two separate implementations. This approach ensures that standards released from the W3C can be fully implemented, and therefore will serve their purpose upon release. Based on an early analysis of the results of the XForms Implementation Workshop this week, the XForms Working Group can refine the standard over the coming months. More information on the full list of implementers is available from the W3C Web site, at: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/2003/ImplementationWorkshop/Overview.html Press contacts: |
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