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Key Features

Orbeon Forms is a solution to build and deploy web forms. Orbeon Forms:
  • Aims at helping you build better forms
  • Is free and open source
  • Provides a browser-based Form Builder, reaching version 1.0 soon
  • Is standards-friendly (XForms, XML, PDF)
  • Creates browser-based user interface based on Ajax
  • Supports accessibility, including a script-free mode
  • Is licensed under the business-friendly LGPL license

Getting Started

  1. Check out the Orbeon site and learn more about Orbeon Forms.
  2. Subscribe to the Orbeon Forms community mailing list: ops-users. so you can get read about others questions and ask your own questions.
  3. Download Orbeon Forms. You can get either a developer release or a nightly build. Nightly builds are in general quite stable, and you will also be contributing to the project by using nightly builds and reporting issues on the mailing list.
  4. Install Orbeon Forms on your application server (say Tomcat).
Are you mostly interested in Orbeon Forms because you want to write XForms or because you want to use Form Builder?

If you want to write XForms:
  1. Go through the XForms examples bundled with Orbeon Forms.
  2. Read the Orbeon Forms XForms tutorial.
  3. Go through the how-to guides.
  4. Learn from the source code of the examples you are the most interested in. You'll find the source for the examples in WEB-INF/resources/apps.
  5. You have any question? Check the FAQ, then ask your questions on ops-users.
If you want to use Form Builder:
  1. Run the Bookshelf form, which is an example using Form Runner.
  2. Run and experiment with Form Builder.
  3. Go through the Form Builder User Guide.
  4. You have any question? Check the FAQ, then ask your questions on ops-users.


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