Il giorno 29/apr/04, alle 11:11, Leszek Gawron ha scritto:
As I have stated before this is not a WEB application. I use cocoon as xml
data provider for my C++ application. I know this usage is not common.
I have used xsps before but I decided to switch to a compiled solution. I had
lot of problems with compile time errors and completely no support in
refactoring I have now with eclipse and java generators.
Wouldn't it be possible to retrieve your data into JavaBeans and serialize them to XML using one of the many Java-to-XML serialization libraries (XMLBeans comes to mind and Cocoon already includes Castor)?
Or, you could use the flow/javabean/jxtemplate approach. It really is quite easy, and powerful.
What you do is:
* forward the request to a flow function
* That function instantiates a java bean object, and calls methods on it to get data into it
* Then call cocoon.sendPage, calling a pipeline that begins with a JXTemplateGenerator, and passing it the javabean object, which'll be available to JXTemplateGenerator
* In the JXTemplateGenerator, you can interrogate your javabean in many ways, e.g. with <jx:for> or <jx:if>, and accessing bits of your java beans with either JEXL or JXPATH, so maybe #{/bean/services/first/address/postalcode}.
That's how I would do it these days.
And then, if you want to, you can have your javabean, which is accessed from flow, making connections to some object relational mapping tool, to get even cleverer.
Just in case this approach is useful. feel free to ignore me.
Regards, Upayavira
