There is actually a lot of work being done on cocoon. Cocoon in fact resembles struts in many ways - the developers will freely admit they take the best ideas from each project to integrate into cocoon.
Some of the features: - schematron ( same as validators ) - internationalisation support - sub applications - xmlforms ( similar to form beans ) ( w3c standard ) etc, etc. There are also xsp's ( xml -> jsp ) but I have never used them. I think one of the shortfalls of cocoon is pipeline processing where you cannot change the direction of a pipeline once processing has begun ( since processing is based on sax events). We have worked around this with a variety of custom actions but it would be a hard work in a small team where you don't have much time for R&D (play time). Another issue is that it is very loosely coupled and you can easily end up lost in a large project - especially for newbies. Having said that, you can get work done very quickly as well. It is worth evaluating - you can cut out a couple of layers of processing using cocoon instead of struts/JSF/clxx. hope this helps Oz -----Original Message----- From: Rabih Yazbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 12 February 2003 10:46 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Need Advise: use Struts/XSLT What about Cocoon integration with Struts? Is it possible that cocoon handle the presentation layer while Sturts focus on the controller? Even though Cocoon has released a version 2, but I think there is anymore much work on Cocoon, am I right? Thanks, and yes I believe in the power of XML/XSLT.. World is moving toward this approach, and I wish there is more support for it in Struts. - Rabih -----Original Message----- From: ROSSEL Olivier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 February 2003 10:29 To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Need Advise: use Struts/XSLT >> -----Message d'origine----- >> De: Oguz Kologlu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Date: mercredi 12 février 2003 11:15 >> À: Struts Users Mailing List >> Objet: RE: Need Advise: use Struts/XSLT >> >> >> Hi, >> >> There is an article on theserverside.com that discusses this issue at: >> > >To oversimplify - it says you should develop JSP "Documents" ( well formed >xml ) and use xslt for presentation/rendering/i18n etc. XSLT is very powerful if you can manage things in your XSLT such as document(url) where the URL is also a dynamic XML document. Aggregation is also a very useful feature. To me the (too basic) process of 1 XML-> 1 XSLT->whatever is not that useful. For example it is interesting to have 2 XMLs-> 1 XSLT-> 1 XSLT->whatever or to have XML->XSLT->whatever ^ | XSLT ^ | XML I admit that it is quite an advanced usage of XML pipelines. Cocoon handles that very nicely. PS: for those who don't understand the power of the last pipeline discribed, think about such a pipeline: XML->XSLT->whatever ^ | XSLT ^ | XHTML Struts ceates the XML. Dreamweaver creates the XHTML (with custom tags to be XSLT-processed). Did you say "total separation of concerns"? This e-mail is intended only for the above addressee. It may contain privileged information. If you are not the addressee you must not copy, distribute, disclose or use any of the information in it. If you have received it in error please delete it and immediately notify the sender. Security Notice: all e-mail, sent to or from this address, may be accessed by someone other than the recipient, for system management and security reasons. This access is controlled under Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, Lawful Business Practises. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
