Offline Adobe Interactive Form Upload options - CRM 2007 sp4

CRM 2007 sp 4 Adobe Interactive Forms requirement
We intend to develop an Offline Adobe Interactive form which we are going to pass to Outlook through Groupware Integration to represent a customer visit to enable our sales people to record customer visits whilst in the field
Once the visit details have been saved to the offiline form the data in the form needs to be submitted to our system. From what i can see we have three options for this to take place: by Email / WebServices / WebDynpro-Upload can be used to post the data back to the CRM system.
What are the pros and cons of the three upload options?
Which is the easiest to implement?
Regards
Eddie

Hi,
Thanks for your replies.
As per your replies, what i understand is : in the form properties, i have mapped the data source to context node (my data node) and pdfsource to (xstring content). And the template source should be mapped to the form name. Is this so?
If yes, i have tried this and i m able to see the form now.
But lets say, if they upload any other form, then this will lead to dump, isnt it ? Since the form template is mapped with a form name.
In wd java examples,. they mapped it as 'View.Form.xdp', i thought that the template soruce is dynamically gets mapped.
Any pointers on this, this would help.
Thanks,
Saujanya

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1 - Develop web service to pull information from the created visit to the Offline Adobe Interactive Form
2 - Create an Adobe interactive Form template to hold the details of the visit
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