IBM Workplace Forms: Guide to Building and Integrating a Sample Workplace Forms Application

30 IBM Workplace Forms: Guide to Building and Integrating a Sample Workplace Forms Application

3.1 Integration: what this means within the context of

Workplace Forms

Workplace Forms provides is a component technology that is based on open standards.

The discussion of integration typically depends on the context of the customer scenario,

infrastructure, and solution scope.

As a level-set, the simplest use of Workplace Forms is standalone — one can launch the

Workplace Forms Viewer by double-clicking a form on their desktop. This will cause the

Workplace Forms Viewer to launch as a standalone application and present the form for data

entry or viewing (Figure 3-1).

Figure 3-1 Baseline example: the Workplace Forms Viewer running standalone as a desktop application