Oops, looks like Andy Coliver proposed something similar a few months ago (just saw it because his email address sorts early :-) Sorry to other list folks for the gaffe!
Andy: Anything in here match up with what you were considering? Catch up off-list? -b > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Topping > Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 5:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: New Technologies Sample App > > > Wow, I looked away for a few weeks and there are all these > new technologies on Cocoon! Forrest, XMLForm, the sunShine > initiative -- wow!! > > I'm sitting here thinking that I want to use these > technologies on the site I am bringing together. I > understand that they may not be ready for prime time, but I'm > finding that the alternatives (i.e. Jetspeed) need enough > rework that they could lose whatever robustness they might > have had to start with. If I'm not the only one thinking > this, there is probably some critical mass waiting to explode here! > > So since I am going to be pulling together an application for > my work, it seemed to make sense to publish the app skeleton > under scratchpad. The idea would be a "best practices" > application that could 1) showcase the technologies, 2) form > an integration laboratory to ensure the technologies that are > involved grow together instead of away from each other (ala > Gump), and 3) possibly become a target in a JUnit test > regimen for nightly builds. > > If that sounds good so far, I'm interested in getting a pulse > on what projects ought to be at the party. The goal of my > outside project is actually a commerce-enabled CMS portal. > This would be like salon.com where some items are only > available to paying subscribers. So I see that I would want > to use the sunRise for authentication to those areas, and > sunSpot for the portal functionality. The forms to be > completed to establish an account would be done through > XMLForms (haven't been able to find the documentation on it > yet, but I'm still looking). I'm not too familiar yet with > Schecoon, but since the app needs to be built using MVC, if > we can wedge it in, all the better. It would be great to get > a CMS into the mix, one that could trigger Forrest to > generate and deploy as many static pages that need to be, > based on changes in the CMS. Finally, the entire project > should be documented with Forrest, although I have to admit > wishing that we had something like Maven in place because of > the build system elements... http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/maven. > > Am I missing any projects that would benefit the > demonstration application? Anything that makes development > easier? When this is done, someone should be able to quickly > generate a Cocoon application by using this project as template. > > Any all comments / suggestions / OT / RT welcome and appreciated! > > Brian > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
