Hello,
The development team I work with is responsible for building several types of applications including:
1) Web based applications.
2) CD-Rom applications
3) "Hybrid" applications (i.e. CD-Rom applications with Web based components )
4) Applications which have both a CD-Rom and Web based versions.
We started using XML in many of our applications, and for Web Based applications Apache+Tomcat+Cocoon seems to be a very good solution for us.
However, our CD-Rom group has been using different technologies for their work up to now. Mainly Delphi and C++. But that doubles a lot of the effort for developing applications - particularly the "Hybrid" and dual version applications - because we have two different source code bases.
What we would "like" to do is leverage our Cocoon software for our CD-Rom based products - as opposed to building our own CD based reporting framework. Possibly using a tool like JBuilder or Delphi for a "front-end" to the application.
Is this possible?
Has anybody done this?
Can we run Cocoon without Tomcat (or similar servlet engine?) - I know there is a CLI, but does this eliminate the need for a servlet engine? - OR - Do we need to find some way to deploy the servlet engine on the client's computer?
Thanks for your time,
-alan ramsey
