The Orbeon Forms Blog

We have just posted a release candidate for Orbeon Forms 3.6. Orbeon Forms 3.6 now contains over 170 improvements over Orbeon Forms 3.5.1. The idea behind the release candidate is to see if anything is obviously broken before we release 3.6 final. It does not mean that Orbeon Forms is... More

When a form field is loosing the focus, the browser is supposed to send two events: blur and change. The latter is only sent if the you have changed the value of the field. When you change the value of a first field and tab to a second field, all... More

Over the last two weeks, we fixed a series of bugs that we considered blockers for Orbeon Forms 3.6: Error when using browser back button when using xforms:instance[@src = 'input:*'] Label is not hidden when repeat iteration is added Inspector does not show initial XML (in some cases) Issue with... More

A really cool thing about Orbeon Forms is that it automatically handles your browser's back and forward buttons. What are we talking about here? Browser back and forward buttons should just work, right? Well, not quite, at least not with web applications that dynamically modify the HTML page. What happens... More

We just committed changes in Orbeon Forms to handle a disk-based XForms state store. What is this about? As discussed recently, Orbeon Forms needs to store XForms state information somewhere. One option is client-side, but this has drawbacks in terms of bandwidth and latency. So the default since the beginning... More

We will speak at the XForms evening that will take place alongside the XML 2007 Conference in Boston (3-5 December 2007). The XForms evening will take place on Monday, December 3 and will feature seven 15-minute talks (we want to make sure you won't get bored). Our talk will be... More

I had a chance to work with a great team on the new edition of Professional XML. This is a completely new edition; everything is fresh and has be written from the ground up. The book covers almost all the XML-related technologies you can think of: XSLT, XPath, XML Schema,... More

Here at Orbeon, we are big users of IntelliJ. It is an excellent Java IDE, but is also a surprisingly good JavaScript and XML editor. When it comes to XML, IntelliJ nicely supports compound documents, such as XHTML+XForms, and validates each part of the document with the appropriate schema. JetBrain... More

I am back from our latest Forms working group face to face (f2f) meeting in Madrid. I was only able to attend the last two out of three days, but luckily the working group was kind enough to move some of my favorite issues to the days where I was... More

I am just back from an exhausting but very productive trip to Scotland and England, where I have been working hard on Orbeon Forms performance: A lot of time was spent timing and profiling quite complex forms used by two of ours customers. We have gained interesting knowledge of where... More