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Form Runner on iPhone

Gad Benisty

We would like to use Orbeon xForms on an iPhone, if possible with a native application. I guess this needs to develop some sort of "form runner" for the iPhone.

 

Is someone already working on it or interested in ?

Best regards,

Gad Benisty
Directeur Associé
tél: +33 6 13 24 44 52
Teamonweb Software
http://www.teamonweb.com
http://www.teamtown.com

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Re: Form Runner on iPhone

Erik Bruchez
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Gad,

A native app sounds challenging. You would have to have some kind of
XForms engine on iPhone.

I imagine, in theory, you could use IKVM [1] and MonoTouch [2] to get
from the current XForms engine implementation to there, and then write
a new front-end or use a WebView for the UI. That would be very cool,
but also it's a big project!

(There is also the issue, if your iPhone app has to be in the App
Store, that Apple doesn't want you to run apps that can run arbitrary
programs. Since XForms is turing complete, that might be an issue,
unless each app is prepackaged with a limited number of forms.)

Another approach, at some point, is to compile the XForms engine to
JavaScript, and run it in the browser, leveraging HTML 5 offline
capabilities.

-Erik

[1] http://www.ikvm.net/
[2] http://monotouch.net/

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Gad Benisty <[hidden email]> wrote:

> We would like to use Orbeon xForms on an iPhone, if possible with a native
> application. I guess this needs to develop some sort of "form runner" for
> the iPhone.
>
>
>
> Is someone already working on it or interested in ?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gad Benisty
> Directeur Associé
> tél: +33 6 13 24 44 52
> Teamonweb Software
> http://www.teamonweb.com
> http://www.teamtown.com
>
> ü Protégeons l'environnement. Ne gaspillons pas ! N'imprimez ce mail que si
> nécessaire.
>
>
>
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