Welcome
1. Orbeon Forms in a Nutshell
Welcome to the reference documentation for the Orbeon Forms platform!
Orbeon Forms is your solution to build and deploy web forms:
- Handles complex forms typical of the enterprise or government
- Works in standard web browsers
- Does not require any special client software or plugins
- Includes Form Builder, the web-based form authoring tool
- Is provided as open source under a business-friendly license
Noteworthy features include:
-
Fully interactive forms
- As-you-type validation
- Optional sections
- Repeated sections
- Up-to-date error summary
- Based on Ajax technology
-
Advanced form features
- Create PDF documents
- Full internationalization
-
Advanced controls
- Auto-completion
- Tab views
- Dialogs
- Trees
- Menus
- Programmable custom controls
-
An open solution
- Open source (LGPL)
- Standards-based (XForms)
- Commercially supported
-
A Solid technological foundation
- User-friendly Ajax-based XForms engine supporting XForms 1.1
- The XPL engine, a mature, high-performance XML pipeline engine for processing XML data
- Form Runner, the Orbeon Forms runtime environment
2. Getting Started with Orbeon Forms
If you are new to Orbeon Forms, we recommend that you first look at:
Important parts of the documentation include:
-
The XForms Guide.
-
The Orbeon Forms Wiki.
For any further questions, you are invited to join the Orbeon Forms community mailing-list.