Reinhard Pötz wrote: > > > > In other words, I personally see no benefit in developing a generic > > framework for tieing views to persistence as a Cocoon block or other > > kind of component. Let the application developers choose their > > persistence mechanism (straight JDBC, O/R mapping, EJB, ...) > > according > > to the specific application needs and give them the tools (flow) to > > control the interaction between the Model and the View. > > IIUC we are only talking about examples and not *fundamental* Cocoons > stuff. Hibernate and OJB is IMO exchangeable and as we can put OJB > libraries into CVS it just easier for us. > Yes, but even if *we* are only talking about examples this is often perceived by users as the *solution*, so we should really be careful with this. I totally agree with Ugo, the users (or application developers) should decide which persistence mechanism they want to use. Cocoon must be independent from it.
Carsten