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c.harder

how to integrate an orbeon application

Hi,

I need your help ;-)

I am working with latest snapshot and new xforms engine.

Initial situation:
I have a 3 xhtml+xforms pages which are controlled by page-flow.xml. The pages are for collecting data. In the end informations are stored in database (currently eXist). It's similar to the BizDoc example.

I want to integrate this application in liferay (opensource portal). I've red that your portlets will not work in other portals cause of development in draft phase of 168 standard. So I used iFrames for a simple integration, but thats not so nice. Does somebody know how to communicate between iFrames source and portal? Maybe JavaScript? Any experiences?

What about other ways?

What are the possibilities with webservices exposed by orbeon?
Does it make since to use a webservice for sending the html snippet to portal?
If this is working, what about the communication? Are submit buttons still working?
What solutions are possible?

I've never worked befor with webservices. My knowledge is poor and I only have a raw idea of it.
So at first I think, I need an introduction. Any good sites?

Thanks for all
Clemens

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Alessandro Vernet

Re: how to integrate an orbeon application

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Hi Clemens,

First note that most of the work required to run a PresentationServer
application as a portlet within a JSR-168 compliant server is already
done. So going all the way is not necessarily a Hercules' task.

If you go the iframe route, yes, you can use JavaScript to access the
parent window, if both are loaded from the same server, which is
likely to be the case.

As you suggest, you could also use web services. That means you would
implement a portlet that call a web service implemented in
PresentationServer that responds with XHTML inside a SOAP envelope.
One drawback is that you would have to do some additional work to get
the concept of session (e.g. to know who is using the application),
but that looks like a possible route.

Alex

On 12/6/05, [hidden email] <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need your help ;-)
>
> I am working with latest snapshot and new xforms engine.
>
> Initial situation:
> I have a 3 xhtml+xforms pages which are controlled by page-flow.xml. The pages are for collecting data. In the end informations are stored in database (currently eXist). It's similar to the BizDoc example.
>
> I want to integrate this application in liferay (opensource portal). I've red that your portlets will not work in other portals cause of development in draft phase of 168 standard. So I used iFrames for a simple integration, but thats not so nice. Does somebody know how to communicate between iFrames source and portal? Maybe JavaScript? Any experiences?
>
> What about other ways?
>
> What are the possibilities with webservices exposed by orbeon?
> Does it make since to use a webservice for sending the html snippet to portal?
> If this is working, what about the communication? Are submit buttons still working?
> What solutions are possible?
>
> I've never worked befor with webservices. My knowledge is poor and I only have a raw idea of it.
> So at first I think, I need an introduction. Any good sites?
>
> Thanks for all
> Clemens
>
>
>
>
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