Is not cocoon's power or anything else that I'm arguing with. There is an
extremely serious bug in cocoon that is causing me to not be able to use it
at all. It is clear that cocoon was developed to be a single solution and to
not integrate with technologies such as application servers. The classloader
issue, http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16580,  would make
it ridiculous for me to do anything in cocoon. If I have to deploy all 100
EJB libs of the company I work for in cocoon as well as in the application
server, than my colleagues would rightly laugh themselves silly. In fact I
cant believe this issue even exists in a product this mature. I am looking at
probably 3 months to get this fixed, minimum, if it is ever fixed. At that
point I will have to wait for a release of the product, as my company would
throw me at the door for putting up a bleeding edge CVS build.

So basically I'm screwed when I comes to my book and when it comes to my
company. Cocoon is pretty much out. I guess I have to throw out 2 weeks of
agonizing work and I dot know how many emails and recode the whole damn thing
in JSP. Lovely.

Well, I suppose it could be worse. I dot see much market for Cocoon
developers anyway.

-- Robert

----- Original Message -----
From: "SAXESS - Hussayn Dabbous" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: Cocoon Competence Center Updates


> Hy Robert,
>
> I appreciate your honesty.
> I hope, you keep with us. I think you can really help
> getting this into the next generation...
>
> just a few of my experiences if you don't mind ...
>
> 0.) i use to install minimalistic components when
>      i start investigating. in this sense i only
>      needed tomcat-4.*.* to start. just installed it
>      and ready to go...
>
> 1.) When i started working with cocoon i first got
>      very very frustrated:
>      sitemap not working as i expected
>      actions, uhh?
>      logicsheets, sounds good, howto???
>      and so on ...
>      I even did not know, what to ask in detail.
>
> 3.) very slowly i got a first overview. i only scratched
>      the surface and one day (after about two weeks) i got
>      hit by realizing the hidden mightiness of the beast.
>      "Hey that's great, this works fine,
>       ahh what easy going here and there..."
>      Until now i still only was playing with the very
>      basics (sitemap, generator, protocol handlers)
>
> 4.) After reviewing my first experiences with cocoon i came
>      to the conclusions:
>      - its very complex
>      - it has great oportunities
>      - it is "complex documented"
>      - it moves fast
>      - it neads quality assurance to get mature
>
> My decisions:
>
>      - use cocoon in my own projects
>      - help cocoon users to get a clear understanding
>        with less frustrations
>
> I'm still happy with cocoon and im still only using the very
> basics. I am curious where i can get with XSP and ESQL ;-)
>
> regards, hussayn
>
>
> Robert Simmons wrote:
> > Fine ... I'm beginning to loose interest to be honest. Right now I cant
do
> > anything with XSP with cocoon at all. because of the classpath bug it
looks
> > like two weeks of my work are about to explode in my face. Sigh.
> >
> > -- Robert
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "SAXESS - Hussayn Dabbous" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:12 AM
> > Subject: Re: Cocoon Competence Center Updates
> >
> >
> >
> >>Hy, Robert;
> >>
> >>Thank you very much for the contributions.
> >>
> >>I propose to move parts of your contrib into another page.
> >>
> >>reasons:
> >>
> >>1.) this page deals with deploying cocoon. it should not cover
> >>     essentials of cocoon internals. this is the next story to be
> >>     covered, once cocoon is deployed.
> >>
> >>2.) i want this document to be for "beginning beginners", (we used
> >>     to name them nebies ;-). Yes we should prepare a doc, that
> >>     contains your hints and tips, but maybe this is an add on
> >>     page ?
> >>
> >>if nobody complains, i will move your contribs to another page, but
> >>keep the super esssentials in the doc (and point to the new pages where
> >>relevant)
> >>
> >>is that ok for you Robert?
> >>
> >>regards, Hussayn
> >>
> >>Robert Simmons wrote:
> >>
> >>>Greetings, I have added the following information to the cocoon
> >>>competence center page on installing cocoon. Please feel free to review
> >>>the following sections and smack me around if I said anything incorrect.
> >>>The new sections are.
> >>>
> >>>* Deploying on an application server.
> >>>* What is essential?
> >>>
> >>>-- Robert
> >>>
> >>
> >>--
> >>Dr. Hussayn Dabbous
> >>SAXESS Software Design GmbH
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