Luca Morandini wrote: > Hmm... I was thinking more in terms of user-visible functionalities > rather than in terms of underlying technologies. > > Look, if one is going to use Spring, he won't be impressed by a canned > app; on the contrary, such a canned app will make a splash on the > average guy just thinking "hmm... how could I publish that report in PDF > and WML and HTML and Excel ?".
I see what you mean. There is maybe room for both. If i would like to know more about multi-channel reporting i could install the reporting scaffold. If i only care about the "recommended" way of integrating hibernate and Cforms i could install the CForms-hibernate archetype and go through the code examples. This all goes under the "making cocoon more accessible" umbrella, possibly another hackathon topic - i've added it to the wiki. > Just imagine a wizard-like thing that guides you through the following: > 1) Choose the page name. > 2) Choose a view or table from your database of choice. > 3) Choose the formats you'd like to include. > 4) Voilà, The scaffold is generated ! > 5) Enter the page URI and the report showing the database view/table > appears: in PDF when the URI ends with .pdf, in Excel if the URI ends > with .xls, etc. you mean xReporter ? :-) Jorg
