About dynamic forms generation

She looked so pretty ... but married was years ago[1]

Don Giovanni

In my last report I told this topic appeared in my last meeting with HCI-RG's boss Dr. Martin. I had thought that was a complementary field in my study, but we both agreed in have a fast glance about the state of the art on that matter.

There's several works about it, and some of them are:

• JAXTOOL, it's a commercial tool based upon XML, and XSLT that transform a User Interface (UI) Model into an application. The objective could be Java, XHTML-Javascript or simple PDF. The User Interface Model use XUI as definition language.
• XUI, it's a open-source framework for Model-Driven User Interface (MDUI). It helps sepparate UI definition of its development. Although it's open-source, it seems to be developed by JAXTOOL's people.
• Some others works as Helm and Thompson 2001, [PDF] An approach for totally dynamic forms processing in Web-based applications.

As fast conclussion, it seems there's quite done on the matter, but it still seems an important stuff if we are thinking about rapid database design in work-time.

And just throw a question, Should [es]xForms play anything here? I'll answer ASAP.

[1] That's an example of fake cite. Don't do that at home.