The Orbeon Forms Blog

The weekend is a time for leisure and recreation. So I'll take the opportunity and talk about something different, something non-technical. Malcolm Gladwell is the author of the bestsellers The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2002), which I can highly recommend, and Blink: The Power... More

Michael Kay (XML guru, editor the XSLT 2.0 specification, and author of Saxon an excellent XSLT and XQuery processor), published an article on using XML technologies to build workflow applications. He describes workflow applications as "applications that one can think of in terms of documents moving around a community of... More

One the big difference between open source and closed source projects is that open source projects have a natural tendency to create a community around the project. In the world of closed source software, people have well defined roles, like user, QA, developer, project manager, or program manager. In the... More

I will be in Cannes-Mandelieu (south of France) next week for face to face meetings involving the W3C working groups of which we are members, namely the XForms working group and the XML Processing working group. The XForms working group has been active for quite a long time, as it... More

Mark Birbeck has recently published a good tutorial showing how you can use XForms to query Flickr for images matching one or more tags, and then display the resulting images while controlling their size with a slider. We have now included a variation on this example in OPS. Check it... More

Relax, sit back, and enjoy in just under 10 minutes a guided tour of the most interesting OPS XForms examples including XForms Controls, To-Do List, Instant Translation, and the DMV Forms sample application. The screencast is available in small format for full-size format. More

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