On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:23:47 -0700
Darrel Riekhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> 1) Is Cocoon a viable solution for a reporting engine on a high volume site?
You'll have to question people around. I'm currently serving 1 million pages a day
with C2, and no problems yet. But I do use some HTTP caching.
> 2) Our front end is all .jsp pages. How do we set things up so that our
> servlet engine first processes the .jsp page, then feeds the resulting file
> to Cocoon? We need to use Java calls from the JSP pages to pull the data
> that will go on our reports. Assuming we'd use an XML template in the JSP
> page instead of an HTML one. The server would need to first process the
> Java in the JSP page to fill in the xml tags in the page. Then, this page
> would go through cocoon, get translated, marked-up, etc. Is this the
> correct way to do it, and how do we do this?
If you can get your jsp pages to produce some kind of XML data, you can use the
JspGenerator to feed the result onto a cocoon pipeline. So, yes it is feasible. I've
only done simple stuff this way, though.
>
> 3) There are several minor details about the reports that are important to
> us. One is to put borders around the entire page, and any subsection of the
> report. We have several other minor reqs like this that our current
> reporting engine can't do. Is Cocoon flexible and powerful enough to any
> kind of formatting, and to generate HTML or PDF or <other formats> with
> custom formatting?
As for HTML, XSLs can do just about everything. Someone else will have to comment on
PDF, but XSL:FO is able to describe just about any layout you can imagine, and I guess
batik is pretty complete.
> 4) We are going to need help. Are there any good books on Cocoon? Are
> there any Cocoon consultants around that would come on site for a few weeks?
I work as a consultant, under my own company. If you do need help, get in touch,
although I believe that with the excelent support I've seen in the mailing list, you
should be able to get by without on-site help.
I don't know of any Cocoon books. You'll find books on the technologies used, as
they're standard, but I guess there's none on Cocoon (yet). After all, Cocoon 2 has
just reached beta.
Cheers,
Sergio
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