The Orbeon Forms Blog

Orbeon Forms allows you to manage your web forms' entire lifecycle, and run your forms on-premises or in the cloud, with a focus on security and compliance.

Tuesday, Feb 22, 2005

XML Unit Testing

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
Thursday, Feb 17, 2005

3-Tier Architecture versus Service Oriented Architecture

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
Friday, Feb 11, 2005

Server-Side XForms

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
Thursday, Jan 20, 2005

ObjectWebCon05

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
Thursday, Sep 23, 2004

Java Business Integration (JBI) - a.k.a. JSR-208

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
Saturday, Aug 28, 2004

What are those Composite Applications?

"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
Monday, Aug 23, 2004

Orbeon PresentationServer released as open source

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