The Orbeon Forms Blog

The Mozilla project recently announced the first beta version of their XForms support for the Mozilla and Firefox browsers. As the W3C puts it, XForms is the next generation of web forms. It aims at replacing HTML forms within XHTML, as well as providing other languages such as SVG the... More

This Monday Orbeon gave a short talk on XML pipelines at ObjectWebCon05 in Lyon, France. The talk was done in the context of ObjectWeb's ESBi initiative. The goal of this initiative is, in ObjectWeb's own words, "to foster reuse of ObjectWeb middleware in the domain of Enterprise Application Integration, starting... More

The Java Business Integration (JBI) specification currently being worked on within the Java Community Process (JCP) extends the Java Platform with the concept of services (as in SOA). It defines in particular what services are and how they can interact with each other over diverse protocols (e.g. JMS, SOAP). For... More

"Composite applications" has become quite a buzzword. But what are those composite applications, exactly? The short answer is: applications built by composing existing applications and services. Now let me give you the long answer. We are talking here about applications accessed by end users, not backend faceless programs. In most... More

The Open Integration Suite aims at creating an open source, standard-based, business integration suite. The Orbeon Presentation Server, a platform purposely built to create SOA-friendly composite applications, is available for download. Other components of the suite to be released later this year include: Orbeon Studio – an Eclipse-based IDE to... More