Imitating PDF Forms in HTML

Recently I got a customer’s request for an eCommerce web site: They wanted to display existing PDF forms in the browser, so that their users can complete them online, send the form data to the server and receive a filled PDF. Of course most browsers can display PDF directly and even allow to fill out … Continue reading Imitating PDF Forms in HTML →

Using JavaScript Inside JVM to Navigate Data Graphs

When I was looking for a suitable language for traversing graph data structures in Arastreju, I quickly came across JavaScript, which is expressive, flexible, simple and widely used. Originally I considered to create yet another DSL, but this would have restricted the users to those navigation, filtering and traversal operations I happened to foresee at … Continue reading Using JavaScript Inside JVM to Navigate Data Graphs →