Hi,
we have form solution based on Content Server, Documentum Form Builder and presented to webtop on version 6.5 SP2. Is there reason for change server side chiba by gwt xform engine? If there is, how can i do that?
Thank you for your answer
"Is there reason for change server side chiba by gwt xform engine?"
- Not sure if you can, unless you want to rewrite all the underlying WDK/DFC code that is built into Webtop to support Forms Builder. If you want to use gwt xform engine, then you basically need to rebuild your form templates from scratch and not rely on Forms Builder and Webtop for the presentation.
Hello,
Thank you for your answer. On web page "https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-3391" you can see this:
The XForms engine is able to render forms built with the Documentum Forms Builder. In Java code the methodXFormsFactory.createDocumentumForm(document, layout, resources) can be used for creation of such a form. In JavaScript, you can use the the class emc.xforms.DocumentumForm. Other than this relation, there is no strong link between the two. (from Simon Gijsen)
And I think, that it means, that you can use Form Builder with Documentum XForm engine. I think, that this is goot alternative to Chiba. Is there a plan to change Chiba in next versions of xCP like xCP 2.0?
"...And I think, that it means, that you can use Form Builder with Documentum XForm engine."
I think this is a big assumption, since Forms Builder is coded specifically with Chiba. AFAIK, Form Builder is going to change in xCP 2.0 - I dont know whether it will use xForms or Chiba.
I´m right now in Barcelona on Documentum EMEA TechSet and EMC presents here xCP 2.0 and they don´t know nothing about Documentum XForm engine, so that means, that Chiba will be still in xCP 2.0 too.
Personnally I would bet that they will move away from Chiba because it's no longer active since summer 2009.
https://www.chiba-project.org/trac/wiki
My guess is they choosed Chiba during xCP 1.0 development and were too far in to change it.
Also since xForms is a standard, it shouldn't be too difficult for EMC to make Forms builder for any other Xforms implementation.
