Portable Application Description or PAD is XML based information which allows you to transfer data between devices or even Internet. Its like a business card for your product, a machine readable document format originally designed by the Association of Shareware Professionals.

The advantage of this system is you can consume or send data without worrying much. So if you have a product you want to send information you can just send out the PAD and consumers on the other end can read it and use the information.

Online PAD Builder is web based application which allows you to create a PAD by simply filling out a simple form. This can make your life lot easier if you have these kind of requirements more often.

Moreover if you had received PAD from others and would like to read it, Online PAD Builder helps you on that too. Just upload the PAD which is in XML format and you can read the information online. You can also use this to validate a PAD in case you have made it from third party.