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FreeForm project
Summary: On this page you can read about main concepts of FreeForm project.Contents
What is it?What can it do?
Main concepts
What is it?
FreeForm is an open source (licensed under GNU GPL) non-profit software project.
So it is free in all the meanings of this word. Source code of FreeForm can be
freely downloaded from this site or from project' CVS repository.
What can it do?
FreeForm is a business form management system, which affords users to
design and fill rich script-enabled forms. Forms are designed visually and
are save to the XML-based format, which is called FDL (Form Definition Language).
The binding of a form to the XML file is fully customizable, so FreeForm can
work with any format of XML you want. FreeForm would also provide users with
capability to publish forms on the web, to export them in number of formats and
would have multiple renderers, so a single form would have different visualizations -
one for printing, one for web-publishing, etc.
Main concepts
The project assumes basic concepts of MS InfoPath, the advantages of .NET
platform and some innovative ideas. For this moment the main programming language
is Microsoft C# 1.2 and the target operational system is Microsoft Windows,
build on NT technology (versions 2000 and XP).