> I'm involved in a large development project that will involve a lot of large form > filling out/processing. We are planning on using Cocoon and have laid out a UI > model. Currently we're trying to decide on a form architecture and after looking at > samples and docs, there are a few things we'd like to raise here--don't need to > focus on "how-to's", but rather architectural implications. > > 1) Do you need a separate flowscript and therefore a separate sitemap for each > JXForm? The samples imply that each form has to have a script and each script is > associated with a sitemap. This would lead to a huge number of subdirectories and > sub-sitemaps for our project which is not desirable. We can live with one java > class/form as XMLForm seems to need, but one directory with a script and associated > pages per form is unacceptable. > > 2) For a simple, one-page form, do you need to have a script? Is there a sample of > a single-page form using JXForm? > > 3) Do you have to use javascript with flow or can you substitute something else (a > java class)? We don't have any experience with javascript and were hoping to keep > our development technologies limited to XML/HTML, XSLT and Java classes. > > 4) Is it possible to dynamically pre-populate a JXForm from a database? The sample > has the data hard-coded and as we're not javascript fluent, we don't know if it's > possible. > > 5) We have some concerns with the continuation model's scalability. Making the > assumption that there is something memory-resident on the server side, how does one > clean up old continuation objects? what is the lifecycle? what is the memory > footprint? > 6) Regarding the recent discussions of refactoring JXForm and XMLForms and possible deprecation of the Cocoon XMLForm codebase. If we embark on an XMLForm development effort - which we were planning to do, we are concerned about impact to our project. Will the Cocoon committers consider continued support of XMLForms?
7) If XMLForms code base is retained, is the community considering refactoring enhancements in XMLForm.org code base back into Cocoon XMLForm codebase? We would be very interested in this. And one specific question: 8) JXForm documentation in general - is there any/where is it? (I haven't been able to find anything.) Sorry for the length, but we're at a crucial decision point in our project and as Cocoon seems to be at a similarly crucial decision point, we felt it worthwhile to ask these questions. Thanks, J. Chris Clark Senior Developer Teraview Development Teranet Inc. 1 Adelaide St. E. Toronto, ON, M5C 2V9 416.360.8863x2413 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proud to be one of "Canada's Top 100 Employers 2003" http://www.teranet.ca/corporate/news/top100.html The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful.
