I am under the impression, that there are a lot more big sites out there that use cocoon, which are not published on Cocoon's page of live sites. One of the major draws to a product for me is its usage by sites with big names. Salon obviously is one. I wouldn't think listing more live sites would be a show off contest, rather it would really make a difference for Cocoon's recognition.
I would suggest that we come up with some way to encourage people to submit more live sites. A lot of good documentation can come from these too. An example would be HP who use Cocoon in various places. Like the BlueStone server which promotes cocoon: http://www.bluestone.com/products/hp_web_services/developer/faq/general.htm# 10 And also this nice presentation by Pankaj Kumar, which gave me a jump start on Cocoon's concepts: http://www.pankaj-k.net/uc2/sld001.htm Also Cocoon's site doesn't even mention that JBuilder 5+ has built-in support for Cocoon. Why not? JBuilder is still the top selling Java IDE. Cheers, Ivelin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 9:39 PM Subject: Live Site > > Well, an -almost- live site: > > http://dir.salon.com/ > > We began working with cocoon, internally last year and experimented with it > quite a bit. > > Recently, we chose to re-engineer our Directory, which is a compilation of > links to all of the articles we have published over the last six years. This > encompasses about 16,000 articles. We realized we'd also benefit by > re-publishing all of our old content in XML, as well. > > There are many reasons we opted to deploy Cocoon, and I hope to find the time > to write them all up sometime soon, along with a basic overview of how we > deployed it, what kinds of code we had to/didn't have to write to do it, > etc., in the hopes that it will assist others. > > We are still tuning and evolving the new Directory, and have only directed a > small amount of our public traffic to it. Over the coming weeks, we expect > to make it fully live. Our biggest challenge has not been in deploying > Cocoon, but in re-publishing our old content, which is stored as completely > non-validated (read: sloppy) HTML fragments in an Oracle database. Most > likely we will have to re-publish a few more times to get things fully > cleaned up. > > At some point in the future, we may contemplate switching our > entire site over to Cocoon if the directory service proves stable and > efficient under it. In addition, we'll begin to make more use of Cocoon's > features shortly; we've really only scratched the surface at this point. > > In the meantime, a big thanks goes out to all of the Cocoon users and > developers who have made all of this possible. > > Regards, > > Benjamin Grant > VP, Technology > Salon > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
