The Orbeon Forms Blog

Consider this: Blogger can host your blog. Blogrolling lets you have an online blog roll, which in short is a list of links to blogs you are watching. XQuery The Web lets you run XQuery on a web page. If your blog is on Blogger, and your blog roll is... More

Yes, this blog has been down for most of last week. The reason: our server had been hacked and we were closing the breaches that have been used by the hackers. Among those, were security bugs in both WordPress and AWStat. Those two applications are written with the two most... More

The new Spotlight search in Mac OS X Tiger shows what a search engine should not have: a submit button. Why do applications force us to click on a button, instead of showing us what we are looking for as we type? The widespread deployment of browsers supporting the XMLHttpRequest... More

One benefit of using the integrated browser in Studio is that the Logging Events view can be cleared every time you click on a link or reload a page, so it only displays data for the last page you loaded. If you don’t want the browser to be always visible... More

I read a couple of days ago an article by Brian Goetz on IBM DeveloperWorks about screen-scraping with XQuery. The idea behind HTML screen-scraping consists in accessing an HTML page on the web, and extracting information out of it. The DeveloperWorks article proposes two ideas: Using JTidy to convert the... More

We are now serving the RSS feeds for this blog through FeedBurner. FeedBurner makes sure the feed is well formatted so it works optimally on your reader. The URLs for the new feeds are: Postings RSS Comments RSS You can continue to use the old URLs if you wish as... More

Just before this weekend, I launched a mini-project to create a new "Blog" sample application for Orbeon PresentationServer (OPS). The idea had been suggested independently by two users of OPS, and there was also my own inclination to write another cool example application for OPS that leverages XML. Where do... More

Reason 1: XML is the standard for exchanging data Increasingly data that a Web application needs is available in XML format. Increasingly business logic is not mixed with the presentation layer to form an application, but is made available to the presentation layer as a reusable service and web services... More

Developers have known for a long time that unit testing can make a difference in software. In particular, solid unit tests help increase its robustness and make it easier to refactor source code. Extreme Programming (XP) in particular considers testing a core piece of its lightweight methodology (but many developers... More

A 3-Tier Architecture (3TA) is traditionally used when building web applications. It makes a logical separation between the presentation layer, the business logic layer, and the database layer. For instance, on the Java platform, the presentation layer could be implemented with JSP and JSF, the business layer with session EJB,... More