Chiba Web 3.0.0b2
Chiba Web 3 is a new major release of the Chiba server-side XForms implementation, coming with a brand new JavaScript layer, improved XForms 1.1 support, localisation, XPath 2.0 and more.
- Chiba is now using Dojo Toolkit Version 1.2.3 (latest) which vastly improves the quality of the UI. The completely rewritten JavaScript layer already comes with compilation and CDN support allowing you to load many parts of the application libs from Google. Dojo components can be seemlessly integrated with XForms processing to add the last missing pieces that make up a full application.
- Large parts of the Core processor and the Web layer have been heavily refactored and now provide a cleaner API and simplified parts of the Code. Extensibility of the Java API has been greatly improved.
- The CSS system has been reworked for consistency and there's new documentation available.
We boldly call it a beta ;) Please handle with care.
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What is it ?
  • a ToolKit combining XForms, AJAX and the Dojo toolkit
  • combines an attractive and extensible set of cross-browser widgets with the rich MVC Model of XForms
  • Rapid web application building in a declarative way
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Key Components
XForms
Chiba is an Open Source Java Implementation of the W3C XForms standard 'that represents the next generation of forms for the Web'. [Abstract of the XForms PR]
AJAX
Chiba uses Direct Web Remoting DWR to connect Javascript widgets and containers such as repeat, switch and group to the XForms engine. For page authors absolutely no knowledge of AJAX techniques is required. All the wiring is automatic.
The Dojo Toolkit
The Dojo toolkit is one of the most well-known and highest-quality Javascript libraries around and receives a lot of attention and credits. It provided the ideal foundation for building a Javascript API to support the XForms capabilities of Chiba.
Key features of Chiba
  • +Advanced UIs
  • +Styling
  • +minimal-intrusive
  • +zero-install
  • +REST
  • +XRX
  • +noscript fallback
  • +components
  • +typing, validation and calculation
  • +declarative application building
  • +Connectors
  • +Open Source License
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News
December, 19 2008
Chiba Web 3.0.0b2 is out. Completely renewed with new JavaScript layer, improved XForms 1.1 support, localisation, XPath 2.0 and more.
August, 19 2008
Chiba, the modular XForms processor has released a new Core version featuring migration to Saxon for XPath 2.0 support, many XForms 1.1 functions as well as further new XForms 1.1 features.
February, 01 2008
The Chiba Web 2.2.0 release provides more XForms conformance, improved stability and configurability and a first cut of automated integration-testing for XForms applications
February 01, 2008
Chiba Core 1.4.0 is available. Next to some new XForms 1.1 features and bugfixes Maven2 is used as project management tool.
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