Web Dynpro Java and Adobe Interactive forms Which Tool Should I Use?

[former_member225041]

Hello Experts,

Can anyone help me with deciding the right technology to use among WDJ and Interactive form by adobe. I want to prepare a presentation to showcase the strong and weak points in order to decide the final technology.

Thanks in advance for the help.

[Former Member]

I personally prefer Web Dynpro Java without Interactive forms in most cases.

Interactive forms are developed on top of Web Dynpro, so you are including an extra tier with the complexity it adds.

PDF files tend to go big and performance tends to go down. In average, my forms weight between 1 - 5 Mb so network traffic is a bottleneck.

The scripting environment is very poor.

On the other hand PDFs interfaces are nicer than WDJ, but I think navigation is worst in part because of the performance issues. Considering this, reporting could be a good use of Interactive Forms.

The best scenario for using Interactive Forms is for off-line applications, which can't be done with WDJ. For example, if you want your customer to fill an order list, you can send automatically an offline pdf file wich he can fill and submit to your company, initiating a bpm.

Best regards, Aldo.