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Last updated for Orbeon Forms 3.8, May 2010

This README.TXT file covers the following topics:

    1. About Orbeon Forms
    2. Licenses
    3. New Features
    4. System Requirements and Installation
    5. Compiling Orbeon Forms
    6. More Information
    7. Known Issues
    8. Third-Party Software


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1. About Orbeon Forms
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Orbeon Forms is an open source, standard-based web forms solution, which
includes Form Builder, a WYSIWYG browser-based authoring tool, and Form
Runner, a runtime environment which facilitates the deployment and
integration of a large number of complex forms. Orbeon Forms implements
different technologies, such as XForms and Ajax, with no need for
client-side software or plug-ins.

For more information about Orbeon Forms, please visit:

  http://www.orbeon.com/
  http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/
  http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/

Also please check the Orbeon Forms Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):

  http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/orbeon-forms-faq


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2. Licenses
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The source code is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General
Public License (LGPL). The full text of the license is available at
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html. LGPL is a business-friendly
license that allows you to use Orbeon Forms for open source and
commercial applications.

Some examples are distributed under the terms of the Apache License,
Version 2.0. The full text of the license is available at:
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.

Please refer to file headers to identify which license governs the
distribution of a particular file.

This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software. OSI Certified is
a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.

See section 8 for more details about the licenses of included
third-party software.


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3. New Features
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A complete list of changes can be found online at:

      http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/release-orbeon-forms-38


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4. System Requirements and Installation
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The system requirements and installation procedure are detailed online
at:

  http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/admin/installing

In addition, the Orbeon Forms tutorial also tackles installation. Online
version:

  http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/intro-tutorial

or in this distribution under:

  doc/intro-tutorial


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5. Compiling Orbeon Forms
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You usually don't have to compile Orbeon Forms yourself, but for
information about compiling Orbeon Forms from sources, please visit:

  http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/contributor-guide/development-environment/java-development


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6. More Information
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Here are some pointers to useful information related to this release.

    * For more information and updates, go to:

        http://www.orbeon.com/

    * If you have questions, comments, or difficulties with Orbeon
      Forms, please subscribe to the ops-users mailing-list at:

        http://www.orbeon.com/forms/mailing-list

    * For commercial support and licensing alternatives, please visit:

        http://www.orbeon.com/support-services/overview

      or contact us at:

        info@orbeon.com


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7. Known Issues
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For a list of known issues, consult the OW2 issue tracking system:

  http://tinyurl.com/ppqyt6


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8. Third-Party Software
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This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation
(http://www.apache.org/):

    * Axis (http://ws.apache.org/axis/)
    * Batik (http://xml.apache.org/batik/)
    * FOP (http://xml.apache.org/fop/)
    * Forrest (http://xml.apache.org/forrest/)
    * Jakarta Commons (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/)
    * log4j (http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/)
    * ORO (http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/)
    * POI (http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/)
    * Taglibs (http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/)
    * Xerces (http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/)

In addition, this product includes the following software:

    * dom4j (http://dom4j.org/)
    * eXist (http://exist.sourceforge.net/)
    * hsqldb (http://hsqldb.sourceforge.net/)
    * Jaxen (http://jaxen.org/)
    * JFreeChart (http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/)
    * Jing (http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/jing.html)
    * JTidy (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jtidy/)
    * JUnit (http://www.junit.org/)
    * Saxon (http://saxon.sourceforge.net/)
    * SAXPath (http://sourceforge.net/projects/saxpath/)
    * Sun Multi-Schema XML Validator (https://msv.dev.java.net/)

This software makes use of schemas for XSLT 2.0 and XForms 1.1 provided
under W3C Software License. The schemas are available at the following
locations:

    jar:orbeon.jar!/org/orbeon/oxf/xml/schemas/xslt-2_0.xsd
    jar:orbeon-resources-private.jar!/ops/xforms/schema/*.rn[c|g]

This software makes use of the Silk Icons, released under a Creative Commons
Attribution 2.5 License: http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/

This software makes use of the PixelMixer icons at http://pixel-mixer.com/

Please consult the third-party-licenses directory for more information
about individual licenses.

Copyright 1999-2010 (C) Orbeon, Inc. All rights reserved.

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