Hi,
last night I had my fifth attempt to setup the Web-Frontend of one of my projects with Cocoon 2.2. After successfully using C2.1 and below in project for about 8 years, I wanted to make the step towards C2.2 After 16 hours I simply quit and went back to a standard Spring 2 + JSF(Faclets) approach, since I wasn't able to get everything up and running witch C2.2 As I mentioned, this was my fifth try and I am really thinking about giving up Cocoon. What's the use of a framework you can't manage to use?. In general I am very impressed about the work done in C2.2 and I would really like using my stuff. The basic Setup I use in my projects at the moment is: Cocoon + CForms + JavaFlow + Hibernate . this was no problem at all under C2.1 under C2.2 it seems to be very problematic. I didn't even manage to get this setup to work. Not to mention the stuff I use in the current Project (Groovy, JPA, Jasper Reports, . ) No where I could find a good documentary about the key principals of C2.2. All I could find, was Step-For-Step command sequences or Videos, that don't explain a thing. Questions I had last night were: - What exactly does the Cocoon Maven plugin do? - Where does the WEB-INF code come from when running a block? - Why can I start a block whithout any of the WEB-INF + web.xml stuff, but can't start a Web-Block which contains these files? - What is the Servlet-Service Framework stuff? - Why does It look as if Ajax and Forms are implemented as a Servlet? - Which blocks do I need for a default Cocoon + CForms + JavaFlow + JPA(Hibernate) Setup? - Which versions of Cocoon Blocks do I need, when working with a clean checkout of the Cocoon trunk (Could see quite some incompatibilities between C2.2 release and C2.2 trunk blocks) - Isn't there a big picture anywhere that can guide me to beginning to understand the main principles of C2.2? - In C2.1 I had to do quite some tuning of individual cocoon.xconf elements? How do I find out which elements are configured and which options I have and most of all . How do I configure them? I remember properly setting up the Janitor to my individual needs solved most of my OutOfMemory problems in C2.1. I would gladly contribute in bugfixing and reporting issues, just I have done this for quite some years now. I even have a cool C2.1 Flex-Serializer working here and would gladly contribute it . but at the moment Cocoon 2.2 doesn't "let me in" and I don't think I will manage with this little documentation available L Please enlighten me so I don't abandon Cocoon . the project I was totally obsessed with since some day 1998 (Cocoon 1.0.x) but am currently feeling less and less fond of. Chris