Gilles Schlienger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I love the way Orbeon Forms handles web forms and I can see how it
> could benefit in my project at the MVC level (model view controler).
> But I need to use business services developped in java, storing data
> in a relationnal database (MySQL), so I can create dashboards with
> data gathered from complex SQL queries.
>
> My ideal scenario would be to have in my war:
> - a package managing my web forms using Orbeon Forms
> - an API to call my Spring local services (no web services, just
> - POJO managed by Spring) so I could get the user information, and
> - other things...
>
> And in my web application, a way to have JSP pages managed by Spring
> MVC and web forms managed by Orbeon Forms.
>
> Is this feasible and if yes, where should I look ?
Definitely feasible.
Your XForms page can talk to XML pipelines indirectly using
submissions, or directly using the xxforms:call-xpl() XPath
function. A pipeline can call Java using the Java processor, the
delegation processor, or a custom processor.
Java Processor
http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/processors-java Delegation Processor
http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/processors-delegation Processor API
http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/reference-processor-apiYou can even call Java from XPath expressions in XForms actions if you
really want to do that.
Also be sure to have a look at this:
Using the Orbeon Forms XForms Engine with Java Applications
http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/reference-xforms-java-Erik
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