On 8/14/06, Ross Gardler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...The Problem =========== Forrest is built on Cocoon, a web application framework, but "all" it does is XML publishing...
As a lurker from Cocoonland, I'd like to add my 2 cents to this discussion. I'm just back from holidays and catching up with my mail, haven't fully read this thread yet but here's the first thing that comes to mind: I feel that a big percentage of Cocoon users are using it "only" for sitemap-based XML processing. All these people have basically the same problem than you describe here: too much bloat (perceived maybe, but the jars are here indeed) that you don't use, and relatively poor embeddability. So, a "Cocoon light" version that does just the following might be fairly popular among this category of users: -Sitemap-based XML processing pipelines -XSLT transformers -Pluggable custom Java transformers -Aggregation using the cocoon:/ protocol Cocoon 2.2 moves in the direction of being more modular, and many parts of it have been split in smaller independent packages already, but (IMHO) the people actively working on it are more oriented towards big webapps than the above "Cocoon light" stuff. So, unless you're already too advanced in your own explorations already, it might be interesting to poll the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list to see what people think, and maybe gather interest from Cocoon committers for creating a lightweight version out of the current 2.2 codebase. -Bertrand
