The Orbeon Forms Blog

Orbeon PresentationServer (OPS) 3.0 is finally out, and we are quite happy about that! But it took us a while to get there. For most of OPS's history (and before that OXF's), we have tried and often managed to stick to a "release early, release often" strategy, by aiming at... More

Intalio and Orbeon announced today that Intalio has selected PresentationServer as their front-end to Intalio|BPMS 4.0. Intalio|BPMS is a Business Process Management System (BPMS). It includes a BPEL engine, an Eclipse-based graphical process designer, and a workflow component that lets people interact with business processes. Interactions are done through forms,... More

Orbeon PresentationServer now features an improved source code viewer. The viewer uses XForms to display the list of files with the Repeat module. It also uses an XForms submission to call a server-side formatting service which returns the content of the file marked up with HTML, either as a simple... More

OPS 3.0.1 is a minor update containing the following changes: The new DMV Forms example (see also the standalone version) shows how to implement web forms the right way with XForms, services and OPS. This example is based on a real-life form (a California Department of Motor Vehicles form) and... More

I spent two days last week at ObjectWebCon '06 in Paris, where I had the opportunity to make two presentations about XForms (a long one and a short one!) and a product demo on the ObjectWeb booth (called the "ObjectWeb Village"). The ObjectWebCon audience, even though very much into the... More

You have an idea for the next online service that will change the world. Good! Now, should you make it accessible through a web browser, or will you create a desktop application to provide a more responsive and user friendly user interface? Think Google Maps versus Google Earth. If you... More

We just introduced for the first time at the ObjectWeb conference a new XForms example that runs on the Orbeon PresentationServer (OPS) 3.0 platform. The "DMV Forms" sample application shows how to implement dynamic web forms "the right way" with XForms, services and OPS. It is based on a real-life... More

This morning I was fighting against some nasty little bug and it got to a point where I needed some additional tool to squash the villain: a tool that would show me the HTTP headers sent back by my web application. For this, I used LiveHTTPHeaders, a nice and simple... More

It is with great pleasure that we are announcing the availability of Orbeon PresentationServer (OPS) version 3.0. Orbeon PresentationServer is an open source development platform for building form-based applications. OPS 3.0 makes it easy to build web forms by bringing standard W3C XForms to mainstream browsers thanks to user-friendly Ajax... More

A recent discussion in the public-xml-processing-wg mailing-list raises the quite interesting question of which data model to choose for an XML processing language. Most XML processing languages have historically bet on simplicity. In the case of XPL, XML components (called XML processors in the XPL terminology) exchange complete XML information... More