I'm on the plane back to Italy. My iTunes plays Celia Cruz's "el carnival de la vida" in honor of her recent death. And I'm thinking that the time has arrived for this RT to land.
In really short term: Cocoon is mismarketed.
I think many realize this.
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Cocoon is glue and duct tape for your web needs.
In general great - but I have a little fear about the perception that "duct tape" could have. Did you mean that as a literal quote? What about saying that we can either be the foundation, the glue, or the duct tape depending on your needs?
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I propose to choose the humble one.
At that point, we would be *inside* and cocoon will do the marketing itself by perpetuating its viral memes to the technical guys who will get more and more used to it and will start using it for more and more stuff.
At that point, we won't even have to go around saying "we are better than struts"... we just say we are different. people will choose what they like the best and what fits their needs the most.
What do you think?
Absolutely +1000.
Related to positioning ourselves as glue/duct tape:
Speaking of J2EE, I think we are really missing the boat by not offering really dead-simple integration with EJB (even though so many here are waiting for its carcass). The fact is that EJB for now is the reigning king and needs a good front end. I know Cocoon works well with EJB but it isn't dead simple for a newbie to see how.
Unfortunately, I am not currently using them and didn't even have a container installed at home until recently. Anyone want to work on some examples/code with me?
Geoff
