Now Apache has two major sectors about Java: XML and Jakarta. Actually
the two sectors have interacted a lot, and as its result, there have
been also several various ideas for documentation.
Originally XML brought out stylebook as an ant task, which currently
seems obsolete somehow. For its alternative, Velocity Anakia appeared.
It utilizes Velocity template technology with xml documents, however,
does not go with XSLT.
Velocity DVSL is slightly different from Anakia in this sense. As you
see the initials as Declarative XML Transformation and Templating, DVSL
"steals" some features of XSLT, but "still" sticks to Velocity template
language.
Meanwhile, XML Forrest came up as a sort of "ASF" representative
documentation system. Forrest is purely based on XML technologies such
as XML itself, XSLT, DTD, and possibly even XML Schema some day. Its
range is also remarkable: Ant, Centipede, Cocoon, Gump, Scarab, Slide,
and etc... All the names are on the page of the Forrest Primer.
At this very moment, I suggest that we be as considerate as possible for
next generation documentation system for the cactus project. IMHO,
stylebook is naturally connected to Forrest, so it might be smooth and
promising to choose Forrest.
Here's a summarized table of each technology:
document template (relative) stability
Stylebook XML XSLT (literally) too stable
Anakia XML Velocity stable
DVSL XML Velocity CVS stage
Forrest XML XSLT CVS stage
Thank everyone in advance.
IAS
Independent Java Technology Evangelist
http://www.iasandcb.pe.kr
Jakarta Seoul Project Coordinator
http://jakarta.apache-korea.org
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