The Orbeon Forms Blog

Orbeon Forms has had Liferay portal support for quite a while, but it turns out that we hadn't quite done everything we could to make it easy to deploy Orbeon Forms to Liferay. So we have just done the following: The Orbeon Forms WAR file (ops.war) is now built in... More

Elliotte Rusty Harold just wrote a piece at IBM developerWorks entitled Ten predictions for XML in 2007. In particular he predicts success for XQuery, the Atom Publishing Protocol, rejoices about seeing the XProc effort going forward, and also says that "XForms, by contrast [with Web Forms 2.0], is ready to... More

We already blogged about Firebug, a fantastic, must-have, and free Firefox extension for web developers. At Orbeon, we find Firebug invaluable to debug the Orbeon Forms platform but also XForms applications written with Orbeon Forms. Well, version 1.0 of Firebug is just out, and Yahoo! has put up a video... More

A lot can happen when you interact with an XForms page: events are dispatched, actions executed, submissions sent, and more. While you can have some visibility on those by enabling XForms logging in Orbeon Forms, an important part of the state of an XForms page is simply contained in the... More

After years of work, XQuery 1.0, XSLT 2, XPath 2 and a few related specifications are now W3C Recommendations! This is excellent news as these specifications had been "almost there" for years now. From the W3C site: The World Wide Web Consortium has published eight new standards in the XML... More

After lots of promises over the past few months, the new Orbeon Forms tutorial is finally available! You can read it online or get it with any recent builds of Orbeon Forms. The tutorial specifically targets the upcoming Orbeon Forms 3.5, of which you can find nightly builds here. The... More

This is a quick reminder that we will be present at Solutions Linux / Solutions Open Source in Paris on Thursday, February 1! We will give a talk in the conference track called "Web 2.0, towards web oriented applications ?", under the title "Managing web forms interactively with XForms". Here... More

The Orbeon Forms selection controls just got better! Dropdown menus and single selection lists (xforms:select1 with minimal and compact appearances) now support a two-level hierarchy (the two-level limitation comes from HTML). Consider the Orbeon Forms list of sample applications: <applications> <section label="Welcome"> <application id="welcome" label="Welcome"/> </section> <section label="XForms"> <application id="forms"... More

The Orbeon team wishes you a Happy New Year! We accomplished quite a bit in 2006: We released Orbeon Forms (previously Orbeon PresentationServer) 3.0 in January. This release featured the first stable version of our brand new XForms engine based on Ajax, and the culmination of an effort that we... More

Orbeon Forms runs within a container such as Tomcat, which is able to serve HTTP requests directly to a web browser. Usually, serving content this way will be reasonably fast, and you benefit from having just one piece of software to install and configure. But Tomcat was not primarily designed... More