10 minutes ? Some 30 hours later I still haven't figured out what I need to go minimal.
-- Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Perry Molendijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 3:46 AM Subject: Re: Cocoon is too complex for consumption? > > The fact is that JSP continues to gather momentum and the era of XML-XSLT > has all but been forgotten. To what do you attribute this? > > XML and XSLT and by extension cocoon has a very narrow window to get some > serious press to make itself live. This window is passing by. > > Funny that, I am kind booked out for most of the year with projects that > need XSLT written for their applications. One of them is cleaning up the > mess of having HTML and Java code in JSP nicely mixed up together. I don't > write a line of Java myself but I have observed is that writting "clean" > webapplications takes a fair bit of discipline that many developers don't > have, or it is usually simply too hard for them; "this how I always do it". > > > If you ask me, the cocoon development effort should refocus itself from > developing more features to getting the product in a state > > such as tomcat is in. A state where people say "cocoon? Oh that's easy to > use. getting hello-world to work is like a 10 minute > > affair. You only need to worry about all the fancy features if you need to > use them, give it a shot." > > OK the Cocoon doco needs work and the amount of features well out number the > amount of doco pages. But you can still get Hello World up in 10 minutes. > Most of the installation problems appear to be typical for all sorts of Java > applications: wrong, missing or conflicting jar files in various places.. > > Perry Molendijk > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please check that your question has not already been answered in the > FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
