The Orbeon Forms Blog

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

We are very happy to see that things are moving along at the W3C with the creation this week of the W3C XML Processing Model Working Group. But first, you might wonder, what is XML processing? XML can be "processed" in a number of ways: validating XML with XML Schema... More

Like many, I am spending a lot of time behind my computer. As a consequence, I sometime need a little break. A few days ago this took the form of going for some "store browsing". Of course, those are online stores I am talking about! So here I am at... More

Last August, Intel acquired Sarvega and it was now the time for IBM to acquire DataPower, in a $100 million all-cash deal. DataPower, a company with 50 employees founded by a group of MIT engineers, creates appliances performing specific XML processing tasks like XSLT transformation, XML encryption, or XML Schema... More

The W3C XForms working group has just released the first public version of the second edition of the XForms 1.0 specification. This is an important step forward for XForms, since the working group had collected numerous errata since the initial XForms 1.0 specification was published, almost two years ago. Several... More

Introduction In this installment, we examine the new "comment preview" feature of the OPS Blog sample application. Most blog applications' comment pages work this way: you see the text of the blog post, followed by a series of existing comments to the article and a text area which you use... More

When Google and Sun said they would make a common announcement in a public webcast, technical blogs all around started crank up speculations about what that announcement would be. And with Google in there, it had to be something big. What Google and Sun finally announced yesterday will not change... More

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