2005/8/29, Yves Vindevogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I read a pretty interesting article on OpenLaszlo, which uses similar > techniques to Cocoon for presenting web content. > > Has anybody done any interaction with it ? > Is there any project that is similar to OpenLaszlo in the Apache > foundation ? I'm looking for a RIA (Rich Internet Application) > environment. > > www.openlaszlo.org
OpenLaszlo is indeed a very interesting thing but after having read through the whole documentation, I don't see it in the same field as Cocoon. As you said the main aspect of OpenLaszlo is interface through RIA access. In a sense it's kind of a pure presentation layer, without any implementation of MVC. On the other end, the main advantage of Cocoon is multichannel processing through XML transformations, and very strict implementation of MVC. The only common point I see between Cocoon and Laszlo is some sort of GUI framework but in Cocoon, CForms are still very limited compared to what you can do with Laszlo, and even if there have been recent works to integrate AJAX in Cocoon, it's still far from it. IMO Cocoon and Laszlo work in the same layer in the application architecture, but don't do the same thing. At best they overlap a little bit. But I see more resemblance with Struts or Spring MVC, than with Laszlo. Just my two cents... -- Sébastien Arbogast Blog : http://www.sebastien-arbogast.com The Epseelon Project : http://www.epseelon.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
