Sergio,
Can you post the URL for your site?
Thanks,
dims
--- Sergio Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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