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Installation
Java provides the cross-platform environment in which Orbeon Forms runs.
If you don't have Java installed yet, download it from https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase-downloads.html.
Tomcat is the container application into which Orbeon Forms deploys. Follow these steps to download and install Tomcat if you don't have it installed yet:
- 1.
- 2.Install Tomcat as per the instructions. If you downloaded the installer version (Windows only), run the installer. If you downloaded a compressed archive, uncompress it to the location of your choice. We call the install location
TOMCAT_HOME
(on windows, this could bec:/Program Files/Apache/Tomcat
, on a Unix system,/home/jdoe/tomcat
, etc.). - 3.Check that your Tomcat installation is working correctly:
- Run the Tomcat startup script under
TOMCAT_HOME/bin
(startup.sh
orstartup.bat
depending on your platform), or start Tomcat with the control application (Windows only). - Open a web browser and access the following URL:http://localhost:8080/You should see the Tomcat welcome page.
NOTE: We recommend using Tomcat for this tutorial, but Orbeon Forms can deploy into containers other than Tomcat.
Follow these steps to download and install Orbeon Forms:
- 1.
- 2.Uncompress the archive into a directory of your choice. We call that directory
ORBEON_FORMS_HOME
. - 3.Under
ORBEON_FORMS_HOME
, you find a file calledorbeon.war
. This is the file to deploy into Tomcat. To do so, just copy it underTOMCAT_HOME/webapps
(alternatively, if you know what you are doing, you can uncompress it at a location of your choice and configure a context inTOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml
). Thewebapps
directory is already present after you have installed Tomcat.
Make sure you restart Tomcat (run the shutdown script under
TOMCAT_HOME/bin
, and then the startup script again). Then open up with a web browser the following URL:http://localhost:8080/orbeon/
You should see the Orbeon Forms welcome page:

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