The Orbeon Forms Blog

We have just made Orbeon Forms 3.7 beta 1 available for download. This release contains about 200 issues addressed since Orbeon Forms 3.6. There are still a few blockers to address before we can release 3.7 final. Here are useful links to see what's left to do: Issues by highest... More

In the last few months, we have been regularly posting updates to Twitter so we have had less of a need to write full blog entries. But now we feel that owe the followers of this blog a higher-level update: Form Builder and Form Runner. A big priority is our... More

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