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POCreating dynamic data entry forms
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copied!<p>I have a small project where I would like to generate dynamic data entry forms with a little bit of logic behind them.</p> <p>A simple use case might be a Football resulting form, so you have a button for a goalscorer, and when clicked the user will be prompted for a player. The form will then send a message (probably to a webservice, but maybe a JMS queue) with the event data. eg Barcelona, Goal, Henry.</p> <p>Then I want to create a similar form for tennis...</p> <p>My idea was that I would create a webservice, where you define business logic. (events, components, actions you take etc.) Initially I thought I would send the sport definition from the webservice in xml. Then write an app to parse the xml and dynamically create the data entry screen.</p> <p>I was initially thinking of writing a webservice and returning a xml data. (which will look awful) the rendering technology could then be flex/ flash and be a thin client.</p> <p>Then I thought it would just as easy to create the forms as a java app using the swing application framework and that was the way to go.</p> <p>Then I thought, well, rather than write a xml schema to describe the java forms, can I just serialise a java class and send that across the wire.</p> <p>Once on that path, I am now wondering if should just a java framework, and the dynamic forms become class that are called by reflection.</p> <p>I would love feedback on the above approaches, and how people on stackoverflow would solve this problem.</p> <p>thanks</p> <p>David.</p>

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