We developed in a big project roughly spanning the past 1,5 years a Java-based Web Content Management System using Cocoon 2 with Vignette-Integration.
The result of the first development phase (the live website) you can see at http://www.gruene-fraktion.de (german). The System was developed by gedas for the 'parliamentary faction of Bündnis90/Die Grünen' (the German Green Party). Some technical/architectional information: - The live-site is powerd by a farm of 5 web-/application and database servers - The whole Live-Website is generated by Cocoon 2.0.1 - The data (metadata, XML/XHTML-Fragments, Image data) is stored in a relational database - Each page delivery consists af a bunch of complex aggregated XSP-Pages using ESQL, transformed with XSLT-Stylesheets for different layouts - Output is done in HTML, HTML Print version, PDF, RTF, Text (all generated from the same content) and JPEGs (for graphical menus). (In the live-site you will see at this moment only HTML output - the other formats are used live in the near future). - For some reasons the caching mechanisms of Cocoon where not used but it was decided to run this high-traffic Website on Vignette, using the Vignette-Caching-Mechanisms. - Vignette is used for some other special community-features like Online-Voting - The Content Management System itself is a traditional JSP/Java-Based n-tiered System running in IE5 and higher and Netscacpe 4.7 and higher, using a java applet for authoring formatted XHTML fragements. Some additional feaures: Complex User Roles, simple Workflow, Image+Link-Management etc. - A sort of 'cache manager daemon' does on-demand-regeneration of changed pages - The system supports the administration of several sites in the same web farm with completely different layouts - The system is used by up to 200 editors who can edit content - without having to know anything about HTML or XML. In late 2000 we took a first look at Cocoon 1 and did some prototyping and implemented the system using Cocoon 2 since it reached first beta. We were very impressed by the features and architecture of cocoon. The first architecture was planned as a vignette-only website, but because the lack of sufficient XML-support in Vignette (and other reasons) we decided to use Cocoon as core system and Vignette only for caching and cluster management and never looked back! Using the sitemap-concept of Cocoon 2 it was very easy to implement the cryptic Vignette URL syntax like "..xyz/0,938,123,00.htm" and Vignette Integration was made very easy. Thanks to all developers maintaining and extending cocoon! Its an excellent system! (some wishes, of course, remain) The Content Managemenet System itself is unfortunately closed-souce, but perhaps we can give some of our cocoon-related know-how as 'power-user' back to the community in the future. Stefan ---------- If you like marketing stuff see the official press release for this project: http://www.gedas.com/press/releases_2001/release2001_12_11.asp (you will find contact info for commercial contacts there too) In case you don't know what Vignette is go http://www.vignette.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
