On Wednesday 10 Apr 2002 12:58, Brent Eades wrote: > I do agree with comments in an earlier thread about the need for more > detailed docs for Cocoon. My colleagues and I are of similar skill > levels: we're managers with IT and communications backgrounds, all of > whom do a little coding as required, but we're primarily project > leaders. We're not hard-core developers. And I know we do find > aspects of Cocoon (and server-side Java in general) a little baffling > still. A lot of unfamiliar concepts and procedures to master.
I have the same problem, tho from a different standpoint. I do a lot of consultancy for small businesses and non-profits, most of whom have tiny IT budgets - many have no IT staff at all. In principle, Cocoon is of interest, but the key question is: is it worth the effort and the extra overhead of using Java? What I'm looking for (and don't find in the documentation) is answers to basic management questions like 'what advantages does Cocoon provide, i.e. what business objectives does it help meet and how?' 'how easy is it to implement?' 'what resources (time, skills level of staff) does it require to (a) get up and running (b) maintain?' plus standard operational questions like performance and security. I've been trying to evaluate Cocoon for several months now (off and on), but still don't really have the answers. For an organisation that is already supporting a servlet environment with XML etc, implementing Cocoon would probably be quite straightforward, but for those I'm dealing with who just want a good way to maintain a website? Ok, it may well use 'pipelined SAX processing' and an 'abstracted environment' - so what? I too would be happy to help out with documentation, but don't really see how, given that I don't really know that much about Cocoon. I'll write the questions; someone else can write the answers :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
