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In this second installment, we conclude our evaluation of XForms implementations and explain why we ultimately preferred the Orbeon engine. I walk you through a XForms sample to explain essential concepts. My team has spent quite a lot of time understanding the Orbeon architecture and I discuss our findings, including separate-deployment configuration and state handling.
mgm develops several large scale web applications containing hundreds of forms, e.g. the e-government portal ElsterOnline Portal. Design, implementation, test, and maintenance of these forms implies significant effort. We are currently evaluating different technologies – including XForms, Wicket and JSF (ICEfaces) – that could help us to reduce these efforts, to improve quality and set the framework for our next generation web forms-centric applications.
