Stefan Seifert wrote: >We developed in a big project roughly spanning the past 1,5 years a >Java-based Web Content Management System using Cocoon 2 with >Vignette-Integration. > >The result of the first development phase (the live website) you can see >at >http://www.gruene-fraktion.de (german). The System was developed by >gedas for the 'parliamentary faction of Bündnis90/Die Grünen' (the >German Green Party). > >Some technical/architectional information: > - The live-site is powerd by a farm of 5 web-/application and database >servers > - The whole Live-Website is generated by Cocoon 2.0.1 > - The data (metadata, XML/XHTML-Fragments, Image data) is stored in a >relational database > - Each page delivery consists af a bunch of complex aggregated >XSP-Pages using ESQL, transformed with XSLT-Stylesheets for different >layouts > - Output is done in HTML, HTML Print version, PDF, RTF, Text (all >generated from the same content) and JPEGs (for graphical menus). (In >the live-site you will see at this moment only HTML output - the other >formats are used live in the near future). > - For some reasons the caching mechanisms of Cocoon where not used but >it was decided to run this high-traffic Website on Vignette, using the >Vignette-Caching-Mechanisms. > - Vignette is used for some other special community-features like >Online-Voting > - The Content Management System itself is a traditional JSP/Java-Based >n-tiered System running in IE5 and higher and Netscacpe 4.7 and higher, >using a java applet for authoring formatted XHTML fragements. Some >additional feaures: Complex User Roles, simple Workflow, >Image+Link-Management etc. > - A sort of 'cache manager daemon' does on-demand-regeneration of >changed pages > - The system supports the administration of several sites in the same >web farm with completely different layouts > - The system is used by up to 200 editors who can edit content - >without having to know anything about HTML or XML. > > >In late 2000 we took a first look at Cocoon 1 and did some prototyping >and implemented the system using Cocoon 2 since it reached first beta. >We were very impressed by the features and architecture of cocoon. The >first architecture was planned as a vignette-only website, but because >the lack of sufficient XML-support in Vignette (and other reasons) we >decided to use Cocoon as core system and Vignette only for caching and >cluster management and never looked back! > >Using the sitemap-concept of Cocoon 2 it was very easy to implement the >cryptic Vignette URL syntax like "..xyz/0,938,123,00.htm" and Vignette >Integration was made very easy. > >Thanks to all developers maintaining and extending cocoon! >Its an excellent system! (some wishes, of course, remain) > >The Content Managemenet System itself is unfortunately closed-souce, but >perhaps we can give some of our cocoon-related know-how as 'power-user' >back to the community in the future. > >Stefan > It sounds an impressive job. I wonder if you developped your own X(HT)ML authoring applet? I think this is the component that Cocoon is lacking for further evolutions in CMS applications. Q42.nl plans to open-source version2 of their product. XXE is a GREAT editor, but license is quite hard to manage with. Your applet solution (if open-sourcing things is planned on your side) would be great.
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