The Orbeon Forms Blog

REST and Resource Names. A few weeks ago we upgraded our DMV Forms example to access its pure XML (eXist) persistence layer through REST APIs. Creating a new document didn't work yet, because it was not clear how to easily create new identifiers for new documents. This is now fixed,... More

You have read about using IntelliJ as an XML editor on this blog before, and I would like to share a tip with those of you who are now using IntelliJ1. Yes, I do like IntelliJ, but I have to admit that it comes with its own set annoyances. In... More

While people are busy writing about what Google is doing or what they might do in the future, I would like to stop for a second and look at what they have not done. Google is pretty strong on collaboration tools: they have email (Gmail), chat (Google Talk), forums (Google... More

We have been shipping the eXist XML database with PresentationServer for quite some time now, but have only started using eXist on some of the "real-life" projects we are doing for our clients about 6 months ago. eXist is open source (under the LGPL license, the same license we use... More

We now have the latest cover of the book, scheduled to come out some time in November. From left to right: Eric, Danny, Erik, Joe, and Alex. You can already pre-order it at Amazon.com. More

The XML Processing Model Working Group at W3C, of which Orbeon is a member, has just released the first public working draft of the standard XML pipeline language tentatively named "XProc". Such a language was the missing link between many XML technologies, which makes this is an important milestone. At... More

I am back at my desk after two weeks in Italy, dedicated in part to Alex's wedding followed by a little tour of Tuscany (Firenze, Pisa, Lucca, San Giminiano, Siena, Assisi). I actually only took seven days off work, but it feels like a bigger break than that, probably because... More

We released today a milestone build, Orbeon PresentationServer 3.5 Milestone 1 (OPS 3.5 M1 in short). We haven't had anything but nighly builds since OPS 3.0.1, so this was really long overdue! What's new in OPS 3.5 M1? The answer is: a lot, particularly in the realm of XForms! Check... More

On Sunday night, the authors of the upcoming Professional Web 2.0 Programming submitted the last updates to their chapters. Alex and myself are quite relieved to be done with a task that took our weekends and evenings! This book owes everything to Eric van der Vlist, who provided the vision,... More

</param> </param> </param> </embed> </param> Recently, I was booking a flight on an airline's web site, when the application asked for my departing country (Switzerland). As soon as I performed my selection, the page reloaded in German. Since my 10 years of studying German did not quite make me fluent,... More