The Orbeon Forms Blog

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

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