Hi, I think this is a really great idea. In the past months, I have been working with AJAX-RESTful architectures. For instance, I have mixed Ext js [1] with Cocoon 2.2 as XML provider and SOAP Web Services as services provider.
Although, I think Cocoon 2.2 is a too big stuff if only it´s dedicated to produce XML. A "microCocoon" could be a goog idea. BR, Juanjo. [1] http://extjs.com/ On Dec 5, 2007 3:16 PM, Reinhard Poetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sylvain Wallez wrote: > > Reinhard Poetz wrote: > > > > <snip/> > > > >> For me those are the reasons why I said that I have changed the camp > >> and think that Stefano was right with his opinion that traditional web > >> frameworks would become obsolete. But, in contrast to him, I think > >> that Cocoon, which in some respect isn't 'traditional' at all, can > >> become the ideal server-side counterpart for such RESTful web > >> applications. > > > > Interesting! Can you elaborate on why you think Cocoon is great for > > RESTful applications? Is it because of its URL pattern matching > features? > > That's one half of the story. The other one is XML pipelines and content > aggregation on an XML level (XML plays in many RESTful architectures an > important role, at least in ours) which make Cocoon still very appealing > to me. > Actually all three together are the virus that has infected me long time > ago at > the good old Cocoon 2.0alphaX days. > > - o - > > Recently I've been thinking more and more about some kind of > "Micro-Cocoon"[*] > that consists of > > o a slimmed-down sitemap language available in as an XML and as a Java > dialect > (no component declarations, no sub-sitemaps, no resources, merged > match/select), > o a controller implementation that is optimized for being used in RESTful > scenarios (similar to Apples) and > o a lean forms framework that borrows some ideas from Webforms 2.0 and > follows the principles of REST. Daniel and I had some discussions about > it in > Rome and I've started with some experiments but don't have anything > substantial so far. > > All the parts mentioned above should be useable in parallel with a > traditional Cocoon 2.2 application. Thanks to the servlet-service > framework this > shouldn't be too hard to be achieved. > > If this sounds interesting to anybody, just let me know. > > > [*] borrowing the term "micro" from Bertrand who used it for a slimmed > down > version of Sling which seems to be another (too) huge beast in the webapp > framework arena. > > -- > Reinhard Pötz Managing Director, {Indoqa} GmbH > http://www.indoqa.com/en/people/reinhard.poetz/ > > Member of the Apache Software Foundation > Apache Cocoon Committer, PMC member, PMC Chair [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________________ >
