I hope my comments can be at least a bit of help:
XSP is a similar approach to JSP. It's more about scripting and not real "SoC" or let's better say, it can be simply misused and so break the "SoC".
The better approach seems to be an XForms framework. Cocoon has XMLForms with more or less much documentation (e.g. http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/howto/xmlform-wizard/howto-xmlform-wizard.html, http://wiki.cocoondev.org/Search.jsp?query=xmlform&Search=Find). But at the moment nobody works at this stuff. It seems to be more or less stable (other people can help here more), but it could take some time until patches are applied and bugs are fixed. The reason is the separation of XMLForms out of Cocoon. The new homepage is http://www.xmlform.org.
Another one is Woody. It's new and I don't know much about the status. You can also find documentation on the Cocoon Wiki about it (http://wiki.cocoondev.org/Search.jsp?query=woody&Search=Find).
The problem is there is no "right way to use Cocoon". There are many different ways. The best is to build on other people's experiences. So ask more specific questions and you will surely get answers.
Joerg
Alberto Zanon wrote:
Hello!
I'm a Java developer and I'm looking for a solid system to construct my sites. I have already realized an e-commerce site, but without rules. My jsp pages contain both logic and presentation layer. Only the data layer is encapsulated into java classes called from jsp. Now I have to construct an intranet at my company where employees will register their activity during the day. The site involves form validation, business logic, and the use of a database. Before becoming aware of Cocoon, I thought I would build the site this way: - a layer of java classes that interface with the database; - a layer of java classes for business logic; - a layer of jsp for presentation;
Now I have downloaded the latest version of Cocoon and read many pages of documentation. But I'm very confused! I read about XSP but I read also about XMLForm ... and where I put my business logic? For example, I downloaded a tutorial from IBM about Cocoon and databases but it shows only the XSP pages to dialog with the database and format the data ... no business logic in it. I'm interested about Cocoon because one goal of it is the "MVC" or "SoC" approach when a site is developed.
Please, can anyone suggest me the right way to use Cocoon?
Thanks
---------------------------------- Alberto Zanon
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