Cocoon is ready and it has been for a while. We've been using cocoon for interface to our application for last 2 years and deploying it in *very* large companies. We have 1000+ XSP talking to EJBs and I never encountered the problem described in the bug you pointed out (1.7.3 - 2.0.3 releases). JSPs are like a toy car that�s "simple" to push across your living room, but if you want to get somewhere real you have to invest time in learning to drive and get behind the wheel of cocoon.
I do agree that the docs need improvement. They are much better though then in the olden days. Artur... -----Original Message----- From: Robert Simmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: January 30, 2003 6:22 AM To: Cocoon Users Subject: Time to go back to JSP. Cocoon just isnt ready. I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that cocoon is not ready for professional development. Unlike tomcat, or Ant, this product has serious things blocking its use in production systems. I personally am completely and utterly stopped by the classpath bug indicated here: http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16580. Just another symptom of a product that needs more work to be used in professional products. That coupled with the lack of documentation makes the package difficult at best. I will possibly be back in a year or so when this technology has gone somewhere. This is assuming it is still alive by then. I have seen a plethora of new people come on this list and then just vanish. That doesn't bode well for its reputation. I don't want to take this step and throw away two weeks of work but the fact is that I also don't have time to wait for such massive bugs to be fixed and to spend another two weeks swimming through poor debugging tools. Its a massive bummer to me but in order to be true to myself I cant see alternatives. The fact is that however flawed JSPs are, I can crack together JSP pagers 40 times faster than cocoon pages. When it comes to deadlines, major bugs like this just stop a product cold. Anyway, Ill stop rambling now. Comments are invited. -- Robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]>
