hi people i'm not a developer in cocoon community but i want to say somenthing about this thread. A GUI will be a great step forward in cocoon proj. many people that use cocoon use allready an IDE. so why this GUI will be an stand alone WEB-based or not application and not just a part of an existing IDE. A netbeans module for example?
--stavros On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Leszek Gawron wrote: > On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 11:25:33AM +0200, Jens Maukisch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > I propose we create a web based GUI development environment for Cocoon > > > build using Cocoon technology, such as CForms, flow, portals, etc. > > > > [...] > > > > > WDYT? > > > > Hmm, a webapplication for developing webapplications seems a little > > bit strange for me :-) > > > > Wouldn't it be better to have a 'real' ide (e.g. based on eclipse). > > Maybe the upcoming Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project (with some > > nice contributions form IBM: > > http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dar/wdt/ibm.html) and other available tools > > are a good point to start/extend. > There is a tool that uses both (commercial). It's called W4Toolkit. Strange > really :)) > > I am also in favour of eclipse as one would have one place to > - code in Java > - edit XML files > - edit sitemap (sunBow) > - build up forms (cocoon GUI) > > using a non-web IDE would make the implementation much simpler I think as > after the application reaches some point of complexity it is a nightmare to > provide a good and flexible GUI. > > Remember that developers usually do not use the mouse so often - keyboard is > much faster if you know the shortcuts. The standard application can also make > use of other features like drag'n'drop or executing external applications. > > lg >
