Hi All, I'm about to start on a "best practices" webapp example effort for Cocoon. I've added a number of enhancements to an existing PERL site http://www.bringmethis.com. The site is a reverse auction site. They've agreed to let me rewrite the site and use it as a live example for a Cocoon web application and donate all the sources as an example. For the moment I plan to start this on my CVS repository (set.superlinksoftware.com) and give access to those who wishs to participate. I plan on adding a full regular style auction to the example that can be configured on/off along with other features of the site. (My client doesn't want a regular auction but I think it will assist in making the example clear). Brother Barozzi has volunteered to make regular commits of this into Cocoon contrib.
I plan to create a more expansive version of the kind of getting started guide I committed for Jakarta Lucene (http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/gettingstarted.html) that will cover not only setup but the whys, ends and outs for the purpose of explaining how to create Cocoon-based web applications. I'd love it if cross sections of the community could lend me their thoughts on the best practices for a webapp or even participate in the development (if they are interested). To start the discussion I have a question: it is unclear to me how to best map from form elements to validation and business logic. I dislike the approach of sticking validation in the page and posting back to it for an error page. Would the new Castor component be appropriate or is there a better solution? If not then when we get to that part (which will be fairly soon) how can I help? Once the *best practices* example part of this effort is done, I'm going to move ahead with enhancements that I'm paid to produce such as a classified section, etc. I'll donate these into the example where approrpiate (read: if they don't explain anything and aren't particularly useful outside of the live site, then I won't clutter up the example). Thanks, Andy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
