Mark Horgan wrote:
Also, do others find working with Cocoon very frustrating? When you make a
change it takes forever for the web-app to reload and re-compile the java
class, espcially when it takes up so much memory. Also even when using the
logs its very hard to track down bugs in ones code especially logicsheets.
But generally I like Cocoon though I wish it was more straight-forward to
develop with it.
Thx in advance,
Mark
Hy,
When i started with cocoon i got really mad with hunting errors
and understanding, how all this fits together. But after about
three months of working with the beast, i built up some
survival strategies. It is how I do it. It may help as a guide,
but it does not claim to be the "best approach":
1.) Instead of restarting the whole container, i only restart
the cocoon app, when needed. This takes a few seconds with
tomcat 4.1.* (~300 MHz sparc dual processor, solaris 2.8)
2.) During development i use tomcat and i set the reloadable="true"
within the <Context/> of my webapp. By this any changes in the
classpath causes an automatic webapp restart.
3.) use released versions if possible (cocoon-2.0.4 seems quite mature)
4.) Proceed in "baby steps" when changing things in your cocoon app
5.) follow KISS (keep it simple, stupid) i keep as much as possible
with the basics of cocoon and don't use (yet) the more fancy stuff.
6.) Separate your app into subsitemaps and subdirs with related issues
7.) use the cocoon-wiki
Especially the search function unhides
interesting docs
8.) I started using the "coocon developers handbook"
It's written from Lajos Moczar and some other active
cocoon developers...
Here are two of my personal favorites. I have documented this in
our company wiki:
9.) For XSLT processing i have added Saxon-6.5.2. It's not
straight forward to install, but sometimes it can be
utilised with less pain, than xalan (just a matter of taste)
Look into cocoon wiki for a quick description or look at
http://www.saxess.com/JSPWiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Install
for a quickinstall step by step instruction.
10.)use entity resolver wherever possible.
look at the cocoon docs for the basics or at
http://www.saxess.com/JSPWiki/Wiki.jsp?page=EntityResolver
for a quickinstall description.
hope, that helps someone ...
regards, hussayn
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