This is the first in a four-part series about using <A HREF="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformsruby1/">XForms, IBM DB2 pureXML, and Ruby</A> together to more easily create Web applications. In this series you will get a taste of the individual strengths of each technology, but you will also see how to integrate them together. In this first part of the series, you will examine how XForms, DB2 pureXML, and Ruby on Rails can all help more rapidly build XML-centric Web applications.