The Orbeon Forms Blog

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

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