The Orbeon Forms Blog

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

Eric van der Vlist has interviewed Edd Dumbil about the XTech 2006 conference (Edd even mentions Orbeon!). We talked about server-side XForms last year at XTech 2005 and we will try to be present at this excellent conference this year again! More

It is with great pleasure that we are announcing that XML Processing Model Working Group meetings have started as of last Thursday. The working group consists of about a dozen of individuals all convinced that a standard XML processing language is a necessary building stone in the XML world, and... More

We are excited to announce that Orbeon will be giving a technical session at ObjectWebCon 06 on January 31, 2006. The tentative abstract goes as follows: Your Presentation Layer with XForms With the advent of service-oriented architectures, choosing a presentation technology for web applications remains a critical decision. We show... More

The following changes have been implemented since OPS 3.0 BETA 3: Numerous XForms engine bug-fixes and improvements. Documentation improvements. Improved and reorganized examples. XForms engine initialization performance improvements. You can download it from the usual place: http://forge.objectweb.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=168 The examples and documentation have been updated online: http://www.orbeon.com/ops/ With this beta we... More

We are glad to announce that we will be present at ObjectWebCon 06, the 5th edition of the ObjectWeb annual conference, which takes place in Paris from January 31 to February 2, 2006. This edition will feature several parallel tracks: "Using Open Source Middleware for...", "In the business of Open... More