Could you give an example of a programming language? I was thinking more about a language that has an API with a lifecycle form, something like an FDF toolkit. I am not sure about using an XML parser. What if I have a 15 page form...  I thought maybe the form server has the API.

PDF form itself is a single record, but I need to collect all records from different users in the DB and organize it somehow for the requestor. 

I think we want collect information from the forms and/or submit them to the server for processing.

The basic idea is to have all forms connected to Enterprise Database. I found out an article about Creating Form Rendering ASP.NET Applications. It talks about Web Server hosting an ASP.net application, J2EE application server hosting Lifecycle ES and XDP forms designed in Lifecycle. Is this the way...

My department has the form server which we don't use. What is the complexity of having it set up and run with livecycle forms? Is there any server side scripting required? If yes, what kind of scripting? Do forms need to be redesigned to run on the server?