[Exist-open] Current Status of XForms?

[Gary K. <ge...@ru...>]

While I'm an experienced Java programmer, I am new to eXist, XQuery, and
XForms. I wish to create an eXist XForms web application and right now I
need a little guidance on where to start. I've installed the eXist demo
apps, which includes an XForms restxq application. Of course it doesn't work
out of the box because no XForms processors are installed, neither
betterform nor XSLTForms. Which should I install - or rather, which
currently works? Betterform is no longer included with the eXist
distribution. It is available for download from Sourceforge as
betterform-install-5.0rc5.jar but I can't find any actual instructions for
installation/configuration. Should I bother with it? As far as XSLTForms
goes, I wanted to see a sample of a client-side page, and the documentation
provides a link to hello.xml for this, but that page doesn't seem to exist
anywhere. Any help here?

 

While I'm at, I guess I could consider Orbeon Forms (community edition). It
deprecated eXist support, but I'm guessing it's still in the code. Any
success/failure stories to share?

 

Thanks in advance from a newbie.

 

--Gary Kopp