The Orbeon Forms Blog

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

Models, even if sometimes crude, can help us better get a understanding of the world. After dividing the industry in 3 sectors (goods, services, and insurances), we have seen how this model applies to software. We'll focus now specifically on open source software, and we'll see how this model can... More

How do we pay and how should we pay for software: as a good, service, or insurance? Traditionally, software has been sold as a good, often even packaged in a box and available in a store. This was not unlike traditional goods where each additional "copy" has to be produced... More

This "article" will be split in 3 parts, to keep each one short and focused. With absolutely no credential in the field of economics, we will start in this first part by looking at another way to divide our industry into 3 sectors. In the second part, we'll see how... More