The Orbeon Forms Blog

It is with great pleasure that we are announcing Orbeon Form Builder. Form Builder allows you to build forms right from your browser and aims at taking the pain out of building forms. It is 100% open source, standards-based, and built on top of the Orbeon Forms XForms implementation, which... More

That's it, JavaOne 2008 is over! We were on the OW2 booth for three days last week, busy demoing the latest in Orbeon Forms. We got a few good contacts during the conference, which also provided us with the opportunity of knowing the rest of OW2 guys better. Go check... More

Orbeon is now on Twitter, under the username orbeon. We have started providing regular updates about Orbeon Forms there. If you don't know what Twitter is, or if you are thinking "Why would I join another social network?", think again: Twitter is different. Maybe this blog entry by Mark McGuinness... More

With XForms 1.0, xforms:output was limited to displaying plain text. With the introduction of XForms 1.1, xforms:output adds powerful capabilities which include handling images, HTML content and more, depending on your XForms implementation. To achieve this, XForms 1.1 introduces a new mediatype attribute. You use it to specify the type... More

We are glad to announce that we will be present at JavaOne 2008 on the OW2 Consortium stand. This year, JavaOne will take place May 6-9. We have some great Orbeon Forms demos in the works so be sure to stop by! More

Wow, it's been a month since our last post in this blog, and one of the reasons for this is that we have been very busy enhancing Orbeon Forms! Here is a quick list of the most notable additions: XPath variables. XPath variables can be used within controls, models and... More

XForms 1.1’s small number of actions are surprisingly powerful. By combining them, you can do almost any operation you can think of within an XForms page. Yeah, XForms is Turing complete. There are however a few use cases that remain difficult to achieve. For example, you can easily repeat an... More

A couple of weeks ago I attempted to order prints from Flickr. I added a few photos to my cart and was redirected to a service called QOOP. This has a neat interface that allows you organize photos for printing in a book format. I played a bit with the... More

I recently booked a flight on the Continental web site. I knew approximately the flight I wanted to book, so dug right away into the search to select it. I encountered the following issues: When the results came, the prices were in Swiss francs. Since I was in Switzerland but... More

Yahoo! today announced a new mobile platform called "Mobile Widgets". The amazing part is that the language used to describe widgets, called Blueprint, is based on XForms: Much of Blueprint's philosophy and syntax comes from XForms. We opted for a full declarative language because it was the only way we... More