David Litwack is a senior vice president and a member of Novell’s Worldwide Management Committee responsible for Novell’s Web Application Development Products. He previously served as president and chief executive officer of SilverStream Software, a company Novell acquired in July 2002. Before joining SilverStream, David served as executive vice president of Sybase Inc., an enterprise software company, and as president of Powersoft Corporation, a client/server development tools company prior to its acquisition by Sybase in February 1995.
The hardest part of writing transactional Web applications is finding a way
to produce dynamic pages. The main underlying component of these pages, HTML
forms, was added to what was originally a static, document-based standard, to
allow the simple exchange of data between the user and the Web site. The more
complex the information and the more sophisticated the interaction, the
harder it's been to create these pages.
Worse, HTML was originally intended for browsers, but today we consume
information in an ever-growing variety of ways. Attempts have been made to
simplify the process, but nothing has fully addressed these issues because
the underlying technology is too limited.
Until now - XForms, the next generation of forms to be included in the XHTML
standard, and now a W3C Candidate Recommendation, improves on HTML forms by
cleanly separating data, logic, and prese... (more)
David Litwack is a senior vice president and a member of Novell’s Worldwide Management Committee responsible for Novell’s Web Application Development Products. He previously served as president and chief executive officer of SilverStream Software, a company Novell acquired in July 2002. Before joining SilverStream, David served as executive
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