Embedding of xforms engine in another app server

Hi Musa,

We don't support using the orbeon-xforms-filter.jar for code generated by Form Builder, we just support it for "plain XForms". (But, even if we don't "support" it, it might work, and we've even recently fixed a regression that prevented this to work. So it might still be an option for you, just not one that I can really recommend.)

Alternatively, you could, from your XQuery call the Form Runner embedding API (see doc below), and setup Orbeon Forms to call your custom persistence layer implemented in eXist that pre-fills the form data.

<a href="https://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/wiki/Form-Runner-~-APIs-~-Server-side-Embedding" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmousedown="this.href=&#39;https://www.google.com/url?q\75https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Forbeon%2Forbeon-forms%2Fwiki%2FForm-Runner-~-APIs-~-Server-side-Embedding\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNElJGpPwanETevkn4XQJDCLKAEQuA&#39;;return true;" onclick="this.href=&#39;https://www.google.com/url?q\75https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Forbeon%2Forbeon-forms%2Fwiki%2FForm-Runner-~-APIs-~-Server-side-Embedding\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNElJGpPwanETevkn4XQJDCLKAEQuA&#39;;return true;">https://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/wiki/Form-Runner-~-APIs-~-Server-side-Embedding

Or you could not change the form definition, and instead use custom model logic to call some code that replaces or fills the instance when needed.

<a href="https://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/wiki/Form-Runner-~-Custom-Model-Logic" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmousedown="this.href=&#39;https://www.google.com/url?q\75https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Forbeon%2Forbeon-forms%2Fwiki%2FForm-Runner-~-Custom-Model-Logic\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNGKrOwU6A7p1RCxlAOu83UldkDi6g&#39;;return true;" onclick="this.href=&#39;https://www.google.com/url?q\75https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Forbeon%2Forbeon-forms%2Fwiki%2FForm-Runner-~-Custom-Model-Logic\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNGKrOwU6A7p1RCxlAOu83UldkDi6g&#39;;return true;">https://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/wiki/Form-Runner-~-Custom-Model-Logic

Alex

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 8:58 PM, smylie <<a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="-ei_hYpLFVwJ" rel="nofollow" onmousedown="this.href=&#39;javascript:&#39;;return true;" onclick="this.href=&#39;javascript:&#39;;return true;">smyl...@...> wrote:

Hello Alex,

I've gone through most of Orbeon documentation and learned how to use the
form builder and form runner since we exchanged a few messages about 2
months ago. I can run my forms as outlined in the documents without any
issues. However, I have another question now.

Hypothetical scenario:

1. Build an orbeon form using the Form Builder
2. Copy the source code of the form and paste it in an xquery file to
populate it with data from xml data.
3. Above xquery is part of an application built, packaged and hosted on an
exist-db server.
4. Do not want to use the Form Runner to process this form at run time.
5. Can I use Orbeon's xforms engine jar (orbeon-xforms-filter.jar) to render
the form in exist-db?

This scenario is completely outside the tomcat and orbeon runtime
environments and is hosted on an external exist-db server, not the internal
exist-db used by orbeon. This is kind of similar to using xforms engine with
java applications or emedding support in orbeon 4.7
(<a href="http://blog.orbeon.com/2014/09/embedding-support-in-orbeon-forms-47.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onmousedown="this.href=&#39;http://www.google.com/url?q\75http%3A%2F%2Fblog.orbeon.com%2F2014%2F09%2Fembedding-support-in-orbeon-forms-47.html\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNGZ3k0X-YBr-ab8zM2htFmCA3Ev9w&#39;;return true;" onclick="this.href=&#39;http://www.google.com/url?q\75http%3A%2F%2Fblog.orbeon.com%2F2014%2F09%2Fembedding-support-in-orbeon-forms-47.html\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNGZ3k0X-YBr-ab8zM2htFmCA3Ev9w&#39;;return true;">http://blog.orbeon.com/2014/09/embedding-support-in-orbeon-forms-47.html).

A) If the answer to question 5 above is yes where exactly do I copy the
above jar file under exist-db directory?
B) I am guessing that I need the information down below to go in exist's
web.xml file?
C) Is there any other configuration to make all this work? Or this won't
work at all?


    <filter>
        <filter-name>orbeon-xforms-filter</filter-name>

<filter-class>org.orbeon.oxf.servlet.OrbeonXFormsFilter</filter-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>oxf.xforms.renderer.context</param-name>
            <param-value>/orbeon</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>oxf.xforms.renderer.default-encoding</param-name>
            <param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </filter>

    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>orbeon-xforms-filter</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/views/*</url-pattern>
        <url-pattern>/edit/*</url-pattern>
        <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
        <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
    </filter-mapping>

    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>orbeon-xforms-filter</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/orbeon/*</url-pattern>
        <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
        <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
    </filter-mapping>

Best Regards,
Musa


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