Loading a Form

Before your program can begin working with a form, you must load it into memory. CalculateAge does this by defining a loadForm functionmethodfunction to handle these tasks.

   private static void loadForm() throws Exception
      {

Before you can load the form, declare the XFDL object:
```
   XFDL theXFDL;
```
Use IFSSingleton.getXFDL to assign the XFDL object to theXFDL. This allows you to access the root node of the form.
```
    theXFDL = IFSSingleton.getXFDL();
         if(theXFDL == null)
            throw new Exception("Could not find interface");
```
- The loadForm method uses the Form Library method readForm to load the form into memory. Before you can use readForm> you must retrieve the XFDL object.
Call the API method readForm to load the form into memory. The method returns a reference to the root node of the form.
```
   theForm = theXFDL.readForm("calculateAge.xfd", 0);
      }
```
- The argument "calculateAge.xfd" is the name of the form to read from the local drive.