Re: XForms engine/tools suggestions

Manos:

> In short, I want to be able and write my document once (in XForms) then 
> translate in client dependent markup. Target deployment platform is a 
> servlet container. The tools must be open source and ideally, java based (I
> mostly care about cross platform code).
> 
> If anyone has experience with tools that could help me in the above 
> fuzzy scenario and can provide suggestions I would really appreciate it. 
>   This is about an OS project and I really dont have time to try out 
> everything between work, school and sleep (ok, and some social life).

I would recommend that you look at Chiba.  You can find it at:

	http://chiba.sourceforge.net/

It's open source, and pretty decent.  There is a new version coming out quite 
soon that should support even more of the XForms recommendation/standard.

> Currently trying out Cocoon's related stuff (http://cocoon.apache.org).

There is also an adapter module called Chicoon (part of Chiba, but a separate 
download) that allows you to run Chiba inside Cocoon, which is what I am 
doing.  However, the current version of Chicoon only works with an older 
version of Chiba.....I'm working on a new version to allow Chicoon to use the 
latest Chiba release as we speak.  Probably about a week or two before that 
is done.


Andrzej Jan Taramina
Chaeron Corporation: Enterprise System Solutions
http://www.chaeron.com