Steven: Sorry for the delay in response as I've actually been on vacation. There are three major reasons for the choices that were made:
- Market share: we also support ASP in addition to JSP - these are the two technologies that are prevalent with web developers and our own customers. - Ease of integration with existing tools: by providing JSP Tag Libraries and .NET components, we can integrate more easily with existing tools such as Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe GoLive, and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. - Flatter learning curve: introducing XSP as well as other Cocoon-isms would hamper acceptance by our customers who are already familiar with the more popular ASP and JSP technologies. We investigated Cocoon as-is and retrofitting Cocoon to take advantage of our platform was deemed too resource intensive. Our pipelining mechanism is easily configurable through our UI and takes advantage of all of the built-in XQuery, XSLT processing, user profile management and personalization, and in-memory indexing capabilities of our underlying platform. While admittedly not as elaborate or advanced as the Cocoon 2.0 pipelining model, it does bring the concept more easily within the reach of our customers for the current web publishing projects they are working on. Hope this clears some things up. Cheers, Chris Chris Parkerson Product Manager http://www.ipedo.com Direct (650)306-4027 Fax (650)306-4001 -----Original Message----- From: Steven Noels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 9:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Chris Parkerson Subject: FW: [xml-dev] [ANN] Ipedo Web Express 3.0 Cocoon-inspired, but JSP-based commercial product from Ipedo. >From the whitepapers: <quote>Web Express is modeled on the Cocoon 2.0 web-publishing framework from the Apache group, but is focused on web application development, rather than simply document publishing. The key concept taken from Cocoon is that of "pipelining," that is, the gathering of data from a variety of sources on the fly, with repurposing and transformation of the resulting "new" documents for delivery to a variety of target audiences.</quote> Chris, why was there a preference for JSP? </Steven> -----Original Message----- From: Chris Parkerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: maandag 20 mei 2002 18:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [xml-dev] [ANN] Ipedo Web Express 3.0 Ipedo Web Express 3.0 is the newest member of the Ipedo Dynamic Information Suite and leverages the powerful XML integration, management, and personalization capabilities of the Suite to accelerate development of web applications utilizing XML content. Ipedo Web Express is a flexible and easy-to-use framework developers can use to quickly leverage XML in their Web sites and portals. Ipedo Web Express allows organizations to reduce the complexity of site style changes, reuse existing content assets in new applications, and streamline development for new dynamic Web applications. Ipedo Web Express provides: -- Modular Content Processing - XML Pipelining, a stepwise model for processing XML content, breaks down complicated eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) transformations into manageable pipeline steps. XML Pipelines also allow complex, multi-step processing via XSL and code combinations. -- Simple Tag Execution - Tag libraries for JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Active Server Pages (ASP) make inclusion of XML content into existing Web pages as simple as adding tags. -- Cross-Document Content Combination - By leveraging the XQuery capabilities of the Ipedo XML Database, Ipedo Web Express allows XML document fragments from multiple sources to be combined on-the-fly into new dynamic documents. -- Open Development Environment - Ipedo Web Express is built completely on standards such as XML, XSL and XQuery and fully supports development utilizing either J2EE-compliant or Microsoft .Net compliant web application platforms. Ipedo Web Express is available for free evaluation as part of the new Ipedo Learning Edition which includes Web Express and the award-winning Ipedo XML Database. The Ipedo Learning Edition is available free to registered users of the Ipedo Developer Network (IDN) at http://www.ipedo.com/developer. IDN is a valuable new online resource for XML application developers and users of Ipedo products. IDN is a direct link to the development and support resources as well as the thought leadership within Ipedo, and includes the Developer Community, a collection of forums designed to connect developers to the technical resources within Ipedo and to other Ipedo users. Sincerely, Chris Chris Parkerson Product Manager http://www.ipedo.com Direct (650)306-4027 Fax (650)306-4001 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
