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echofloripa

Rendering a for created by form-builder in a Java application

Hi, I'm trying to integrate orbeon designer and renderer in a java web application (rich-faces) I have made the configuration as stated in "XForms - Using the Orbeon Forms XForms Engine with Java Applications", but I then I read this post (Beginner question about Form Builder and XForms Filter) from 2009 and it seems that running a for-builder form isn't possible unless you use form-runner. Am I correct in understand that this means I can't actually integrate the forms into my webapp? Or I need to find another way to integrate other than using the filter approach? It would be great if there was a small example showing this type of integration...

Erik Bruchez

Re: Rendering a for created by form-builder in a Java application

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That's right: forms designed with Form Builder need to run in Form Runner.

We don't have a good out of the box solution to embed such forms into
your own Java application at the moment, but hopefully that will come
as it is a fairly often-requested feature.

Another, light-weight way to integrate consists in having pages in
your application linking to Form Runner pages, and then Form Runner
returning to your app once form data is submitted.

-Erik

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:39 PM, echofloripa <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi, I'm trying to integrate orbeon designer and renderer in a java web
> application (rich-faces) I have made the configuration as stated in "XForms
> - Using the Orbeon Forms XForms Engine with Java Applications", but I then I
> read this post (Beginner question about Form Builder and XForms Filter) from
> 2009 and it seems that running a for-builder form isn't possible unless you
> use form-runner. Am I correct in understand that this means I can't actually
> integrate the forms into my webapp? Or I need to find another way to
> integrate other than using the filter approach? It would be great if there
> was a small example showing this type of integration...
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echofloripa

Re: Rendering a for created by form-builder in a Java application

Erik Bruchez wrote

That's right: forms designed with Form Builder need to run in Form Runner.

We don't have a good out of the box solution to embed such forms into
your own Java application at the moment, but hopefully that will come
as it is a fairly often-requested feature.

Another, light-weight way to integrate consists in having pages in
your application linking to Form Runner pages, and then Form Runner
returning to your app once form data is submitted.

-Erik

I had read a few posts and it seemed that they were actually integrating the forms within the java webapp. I might had misunderstood then.

The solution you described could then be used to put the form runner form inside an iframe within my webapp?

In the case I use the form-runner this way, will there be a way to populate some fields of the form (eg: comboboxes) with data from a service exposed from my webapp?

Unfortunately i won't be able to wait until such feature is made available.

thanks for replying
Emerson

echofloripa

Re: Rendering a for created by form-builder in a Java application

Let me see if I am understanding correctly:

- In:
http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/xforms-with-java-applications

I tells how to integrate a java webapp with orbeon.
This can't be a form generated with orbeon form designer? Is it only plain xforms?

Erik Bruchez

Re: Re: Rendering a for created by form-builder in a Java application

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Exactly.

-Erik

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:45 PM, echofloripa <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Let me see if I am understanding correctly:
>
> - In:
> http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/xforms-with-java-applications
>
> I tells how to integrate a java webapp with orbeon.
> This can't be a form generated with orbeon form designer? Is it only plain
> xforms?
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Erik Bruchez

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> The solution you described could then be used to put the form runner form
> inside an iframe within my webapp?

Probably, yes.

> In the case I use the form-runner this way, will there be a way to populate
> some fields of the form (eg: comboboxes) with data from a service exposed
> from my webapp?

This would work as if Form Runner is not embedded: Form Runner can
call services to load data. It's "just" a matter of implementing such
services.

-Erik

> Unfortunately i won't be able to wait until such feature is made available.
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> thanks for replying
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echofloripa

Re: Re: Rendering a for created by form-builder in a Java application

Hi Erik, thanks for answering.

I'm still confused. When I have orbeon as a separated war (as described in the frist link), isn't that form-runner itself?

echofloripa

Re: Re: Rendering a for created by form-builder in a Java application

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For example, on the demo app of orbeon, we have the "flickr-search" example, based on JSP.
Could I take that as an example to run form-builder forms?

I thought in implementing the rest api for the form-builder, then load that form in the attribute and sending it to the form-runner, is that possible?

Or still, knowing the form I will present, I will render it in an iframe inside the app...

Sorry for so many question, but it is because it is not very clear how to do this integration...

Erik Bruchez

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No, it's a bit different. Maybe this FAQ entry helps a bit:

http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/orbeon-forms-faq/faq-orbeon-form-builder#TOC-What-is-the-difference-between-Orbe

The flickr-search example is plain XForms fed through the XForms engine.

Form Runner is an additional layer on top of the core XForms engine,
which provides a custom layer, error summary, sections, grids, PDF
support, the review mode, the REST persistence API, and more.

-Erik

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:26 PM, echofloripa <[hidden email]> wrote:

> For example, on the demo app of orbeon, we have the "flickr-search" example,
> based on JSP.
> Could I take that as an example to run form-builder forms?
>
> I thought in implementing the rest api for the form-builder, then load that
> form in the attribute and sending it to the form-runner, is that possible?
>
> Or still, knowing the form I will present, I will render it in an iframe
> inside the app...
>
> Sorry for so many question, but it is because it is not very clear how to do
> this integration...
>
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