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eForms SDK Documentation

eForms is the new notification standard for public procurement procedures in the EU. The eForms SDK is a collection of resources, models and schemas providing the foundation for building eForms applications. The objective of eForms applications is to create, submit for publications, read, visualise or otherwise manipulate eForms notices.

This site organises the eForms documentation into several different parts.

Cross-version documentation

The pages linked below provide information that is not maintained per version o the SDK, but rather reflects the latest information available for the respective topics.

The eForms documentation contains certain resources that are common to all versions of the eForms SDK. These include:

General Information

  • eForms FAQ
    Answers to frequently asked questions about eForms.

  • Preview Environment
    Test-driving your applications on the eForms Preview Environment.

  • Active Versions
    Information on the SDK versions that a currently active and their expiry dates.

  • SDK Versioning
    Understand the logic and rules behind the versioning scheme used by the eForms SDK.

Java Libraries

  • EFX Toolkit for Java
    A toolkit that you can use to translate EFX expressions and templates for your runtime environment.

  • eForms Core Java Library
    A Java library useful when implementing some standard features of eForms Applications.

Sample Applications

Version-specific documentation

The links in this section will take you to the corresponding pages for the latest SDK version (SDK 1.12).

To view the documentation for a specific version of the eForms SDK, select the version from the version selector on the bottom left corner of the page. Pages providing version-specific information also include a page version selector on the top-right corner of the page which you can use to jump to the same topic for a different SDK version.

Detailed, version-specific documentation is provided for all active versions of the eForms SDK. This includes updated versions of the eForms general reference, detailed information on the format and usage of the contents of each SDK version, developer guides, and other resources.

General Reference

SDK Contents

eForms Developer Guide