Sylvain Wallez wrote: > I think that, along with pinging the Ajaxian guys (which I will do), we > should rewrite our home page to make more apparent Cocoon's unique > abilities in the changing world of webapp development. >
+1000000 , we're competing with tcl.apache.org for the most stale homepage of apache.org ATM. > A distinguishing feature IMO is that the Cocoon platform sits inbetween > hardcore J2EE and scripted frameworks: > - it is based on Java and thus has access to everything that's available > in Java (huge amount of libraries, "enterprise-class" systems such as > workflow engines, transaction manager, etc) > - it is highly scripted, allowing rapid application prototyping and > development, > - our script language (contrarily to RoR) is JavaScript, which is > widespread and gaining a lot of interest because of Ajax, > - it doesn't lock development in scripting: prototype quickly with JS, > then, if needed, translate to faster but more verbose Java. > > Add a few cool Ajax demos to the mix and this makes Cocoon a sexy and > modern development platform. love it, go for it ! Jorg
