Personally, I don't think there CAN be a single best way. Most of the
folks here seem to be writing their whole application in the web container
and using all the cool Cocoon provided stuff that does JDBC, etc. In my
world, I'm not even allowed to make JDBC calls from the web container. We
use
hmm tough decision..
One the one hand, when newer users get stuck, it will be simpler to have
unified solutions.
On the other hand, we may end up with avalon components signing
guestbooks. ( A little overkill )
What I would love to see is all of the examples and ideas that are in
place now,