Simple Database example

[Alex McLintock]

Hi folks,

I'm trying to figure out whether I should use Cocoon for a small office based application. It doesn't need to be web based, but I think it may benefit from it.

My essential problem is that I want to figure out how to do lots of database web pages easily and with the minimum of me hand coding stuff.

In general I want to list records, select one for editing, offer it for editing, validate and save it... and this gets tedious for different tables.

With Apache Turbine I am familiar with Torque to handle the generation of a lot of database<->object code, and velocity to handle screen templates, and Intake to help with form validation, but I am less familiar about how to do the same sort of thing in Cocoon.

I suppose I could use Torque (or OJB) to represent records as beans, and then use XMLForms to write to those beans, and then use the sitemap as part of the controller....
But I haven't yet seen an example of that in action. I'm nervous of going down a route which I think is obvious, but no one else has tried.

Is there a standard application which does all this?


Cheers

Alex McLintock




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