Keynote: How XForms Can Win

XForms could transform web application development and usher in Web 3.0 or it could be a niche technology that flickers dimly and dies out in a few years. Which will happen depends largely on the choices the XForms community makes and the effort they put out. Without pulling punches and while goring a few oxen, this talk will explain exactly what tough choices are necessary to develop a bright future for XForms, XML, and the Web.

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BIO: Elliotte Rusty Harold is originally from New Orleans, to which he returns periodically in search of a decent bowl of gumbo. However, he resides in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn with his wife Beth and cats Charm (named after the quark) and Marjorie (named after his mother-in-law). He’s an adjunct professor of computer science at Polytechnic University, where he teaches Java and object-oriented programming. His Cafe au Lait Web site has become one of the most popular independent Java sites on the Internet, and his spin-off site, Cafe con Leche, has become one of the most popular XML sites. His next book, Refactoring HTML, will be published by Addison Wesley later this year. He’s currently working on the XOM API for processing XML and the Jaxen XPath engine.