This presentation provides a functional and technical overview of Lotus Forms Server - Webform Server 3.0. It includes several architecture diagrams as well as an overview of how Webform Server transforms XFDL and XForms forms into HTML and JavaScript forms for display in a browser. This presentation includes: * What’s new in 3.0 * About Webform Server * Architecture Overview * Scaling Webform Server * Creating a Servlet * Creating a Portlet * Differences Between Webform Server and Viewer * Form-based Settings * Document Accessibility Wizard

1. Webform Server 3.0 Overview and Architecture

3. What’s New in 3.0

5. About Webform Server

11. How does it look?

14. Architecture Overview

15. How does Webform Server work? Logging Service Shared File Space C L I E N T Access Control DB Portal/Application Server Portlet/Servlet Framework XFDL Forms Portlet/Servlet WPF API Application Server Webform Server Translator

16. How does Webform Server work (Request HTML)? Logging Service Shared File Space GET request HTML response C L I E N T Access Control DB Portal/Application Server Portlet/Servlet Framework XFDL Forms Portlet/Servlet WPF API Application Server Webform Server Translator

17. How does Webform Server work (Request Form)? Logging Service Shared File Space XFDL response GET request DHTML DHTML C L I E N T Access Control DB Portal/Application Server Portlet/Servlet Framework XFDL Forms Portlet/Servlet WPF API Application Server Webform Server Translator

18. How does Webform Server work (Submit Form)? Logging Service Shared File Space XFDL response Post DHTML DHTML XFDL request DHTML C L I E N T DHTML Access Control DB Portal/Application Server Portlet/Servlet Framework XFDL Forms Portlet/Servlet WPF API Application Server Webform Server Translator

19. How does Webform Server work (AJAX Updates)? Logging Service Shared File Space C L I E N T Ajax User Event Ajax Client Forwarder Ajax User Event Change list returned (Ajax) User Event Forwarder ‘ Running’ Form notified of event Change list retrieved and sorted XML change list created Change list (Ajax) Changes made to HTML Form Cache (Memory) Access Control DB Portal/Application Server Portlet/Servlet Framework XFDL Forms Portlet/Servlet WPF API Application Server Translator

20. How does Webform Server work (XForms Submit)? C L I E N T Ajax User Event Ajax Client Forwarder Ajax User Event Change list returned (Ajax) User Event Forwarder ‘ Running’ Form notified of event Form Updated with New Data XML change list created Change list (Ajax) Changes made to HTML Web Service Or XML over HTTP Request Response Do XForms Submit Portal/Application Server Portlet/Servlet Framework XFDL Forms Portlet/Servlet WPF API Application Server Translator

21. Scaling Webform Server

23. Webform Server Architecture Browser Optional Cluster Server Optional Cluster Server Logging Service Shared File Space How does it scale? Access Control DB Access Control DB Portal/Application Server Webform Server Translator Portal/Application Server Webform Server Translator Portal/Application Server Portlet/Servlet Wrapper XFDL Forms Portlet/Servlet PE API Portal/Application Server Portlet/Servlet Wrapper XFDL Forms Portlet/Servlet PE API Portal/Application Server Portlet/Servlet Wrapper XFDL Forms Portlet/Servlet PE API Portal/Application Server Webform Server Translator

26. Creating a Servlet

38. Creating a Portlet

45. Differences Between Viewer and Webform Server

59. Form-based Settings

75. Document Accessibility Wizard

80. Questions?