We appreciate your comments about our OXF / Cocoon comparison matrix. We have posted an update to reflect most of them:
http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/cocoon
A few additional comments below:
1. Professional Support
1. We clearly did not mean that Cocoon does not have free support. 2. The main idea we wanted to convey is that the day-to-day developers of OXF are also the people who provide professional support for OXF. It looks like we were unfair to Cocoon by not mentioning that professional support is also available for Cocoon. The matrix has been updated to reflect this better.
2. XML Validation and XPointer support
In OXF, these are feature of the pipeline language itself. The validation feature is not about validation at parsing time (which is clearly supported by XML parsers) but about being able to validate each input and output of each component in a SAX pipeline with a Relax NG or W3C Schema. AFAWK this is not possible with Cocoon. The matrix has been updated to reflect this better.
3. J2EE Datasources
The Cocoon documentation on the subject seems to be lacking. We have removed this item from the comparison. The lack of documentation also seems to affect J2EE authentication and JSP integration.
4. Tomcat / JSP
There used to be a JSP Generator based on Tomcat's Jasper engine. Based on your comment, it looks like this way of calling JSP pages is obsolete.
5. EJB
This regards the possibility to call EJBs from a pipeline without writing any Java code. The matrix has been updated to reflect this better.
Regards,
-Erik
