What is Orbeon Bridge for GemStone S ?

Orbeon® Bridge for GemStone/S® is an abstract name given to different projects (bridges) based on Orbeon. Each Project is a group of GemStone/S packages that can interact with Orbeon Forms.

Orbeon is a classic Java Application with a Relational Database RDBMS interact with GemStone/S Object Server a pure object world OODBMS.

Each project (or Bridge) add some extra functionallity to GemStone/S application.

Current GemStone/S Packages

Orbeon - (basic bridge):

• Import Orbeon Form Definitions from MySQL DB (extensible to others db).
  • It creates from the XML Form Definition an object representation of the Form Definition.
• Import Orbeon Form Instances from MySQL DB (extensible to others db).
  • It creates from the XML Form Instance an object representation of the Form Instance.
• Process Orbeon Forms in XML format after being POST by the user.
  • Orbeon do a POST to a REST services and it is processed and added to GemStone/S object base.
• Synchronization between Orbeon MySQL Database and GemStone/S Object Database.

Orbeon Workflow - (workflow bridge):

• Create Process Definition. A collection of transitions.
• Each Transition has an Start Form and End Form.
• Each form is an Orbeon Form.
• Create instances of a given Process Definition.
• Each transition can have:
  • Creation Conditions (form amount > 15000)
  • End Conditions (unused)
  • Role conditions (role='admin', form amount > 15000) (role='user', form amount <= 15000)
  • Expected Results
• Display Orbeon in a IFrame or in a different page (configurable by user).
• Backoffice and Frontoffice web applications.

Orbeon Bizagi - (designer bridge):

• Import Orbeon Form Process from a Bizagi XPDL file.
• (New) Subprocess support. Now a Process can have N subprocesses of M levels.