The Orbeon Forms Blog

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

It is with great pleasure that we are announcing the final release of Orbeon Forms 3.6! Orbeon Forms is an open source forms solution that handles the complexity of forms typical of the enterprise or government. It is delivered to standard web browsers thanks to XForms and Ajax technology, with... More

We had great success with the XForms Evening a the XML 2007 conference on Monday. We were wondering if people would really want to attend sessions that late in the evening (from 7:30 to 9:00 PM), but the attendance beat our expectations, with easily over 60 people cramped in the... More

As a reminder, there will be a free XForms Evening this Monday at the XML 2007 conference in Boston, and I will be presenting a talk about XForms and eXist. There are several great speakers scheduled and this is a great opportunity to learn about XForms, so don't miss it!... More

Yesterday, I was filling-out an application form on the E*TRADE web site. So here I go, entering my information in a traditional wizard-like workflow, with page reloads et al. When I get to the end of it (about six or seven pages total), I figure I would check if I... More