Sidewinder is a new kind of desktop application framework. Like many frameworks it makes the task of producing desktop applications easier, but whilst other frameworks will use C#, Visual Basic or Java, Sidewinder uses high-level, standard languages, such as XHTML and XForms.
Sidewinder has a pluggable architecture, which means that it is able to use processors from different vendors for these standard languages. The XForms part is provided by formsPlayer.
In this handbook we'll look at how to use Sidewinder and formsPlayer to create powerful applications.