NachrichtMichael, There is no one clear answer.
My preference would be Cocoon for complex portals and struts for small HTML apps. While there are new breeds of Struts derivatives these days, they have yet to reach the sophistication of Cocoon as a multi tier xml publishing platform. The original Struts from Jakarta is very stable and is bound to HTML. All the other extensions are recent developments which will need to prove themselves over time. Cocoon has been in existance for over 5 years. It is about to become a top level Apache project. It's name recognition and community are probably its most valuable asset when comparing to any other product. Ivelin ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Bald To: Cocoon-Users Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 7:47 AM Subject: Another important Cocoon/XMLForm vs. Struts Question Hi everybody, I am a German student who is writing his bachelor thesis about building Web-Applications and especially about doing it with Cocoon and XMLForm. In the last chapter I will give reasons why it is necessary to use Cocoon instead of Struts. 3 month ago the answer seems to be clear or to say it in better words, you could not ask this question because the frameworks had totally different goals. If you want multi-channel web-publishing, you had to use Cocoon and if you want to build applications to handle a flow of HTML-Forms, you had to use Struts. But I think, things have changed. With XMLForm in Cocoon you have a comfortable way, to handle HTML-Forms. On the other hand there are solutions like StrutsCx or stxx to transform the responses in every wanted format with XSLT. I' ve read the arguments by Ivelin Ivanov in his mail (http://outerthought.net/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=XMLFormsStruts) that you should use Cocoon "if you plan to build a lot of web applications in the future". I hope you can tell me just a few more arguments, because he did not mentioned that you have the possibility to use Struts with XSL. Thanks for your help Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
