The Orbeon Forms Blog

At the end of last week, we moved our main office in California from Mountain View to San Mateo. If moving furniture was not fun enough, we also had to move our server rack. This has caused some downtime of our servers, including our email, and of course we have... More

A little over two weeks ago, Alex and I joined friends for a fantastic tour to China and Tibet. I am now back and Alex will follow next week. Just before we left, we released version 3.0 beta 3 of OPS. It is now time to catch up with the... More

This is a follow-up to The OPS Blog Sample Application, Part I, published a few months ago in this blog. Part I covered basics such as persistence, document formats, and XML-RPC. In this installment, we continue the development of this sample applications for OPS 3.0. Upgrades First of all, the... More

OPS, like many Java platforms and applications, has to deal with exceptional conditions occurring at runtime: an XML file may be ill-formed and cause parsing errors; a Page Flow configuration may be incorrect; an XSLT stylesheet or an XForms page may contain incorrect markup; and so on. In such cases... More

Two days ago we released OPS 3.0 beta. This is a great milestone for the open source Orbeon PresentationServer, because it's the first time OPS features an XForms engine with full support for events! When we started designing OPS (then called OXF) back in the summer of 2002, we focused... More

Remember that old book called a dictionary? Once upon a time, this is what we had to use to check the spelling of a word. Now instead, we can use the spell checker that comes with the free Google Toolbar for Firefox and IE. After you install the toolbar, click... More

Yesterday, I decided to write some code to generate an RSS feed from our project news page on the ObjectWeb Forge. It was a simple matter doing some screen scrapping and generating XML based on the collected data. I chose to go with XQuery as it was a perfect language... More

<img src="http://www.orbeon.com/download/blog//ops30beta01.jpg" alt="OPS 3.0 BETA Repeating Controls" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em" width="250/ height="244"/> It is with great pleasure that we are announcing that OPS 3.0 BETA is out! The major novelty is much improved XForms 1.0 support. OPS has implemented a subset of XForms since its first... More

As I wrote recently on the Wikipedia XForms page, implementing XForms in mobile devices provides a number of benefits: User interfaces using XForms require less round trips with the server and are in that sense more self contained than user interfaces using HTML 4 forms. Capabilities of mobile devices vary... More

There does not appear to be an end to the Ajax craze, witness the amount of activity reported by Ajaxian.com. Of course, Ajax does not solve all the problems of the world, and it comes with a series of new problems of its own. For those who missed the boat,... More