Hi all, As you certainly know, Ajax and RAD/scripted frameworks are hot lately.
I'm closely following http://www.ajaxian.com/, a blog about all things Ajax. Recently they started talking about continuations [1] and [2], even mentioning our Rhino fork, but without mentioning Cocoon.
I think that, along with pinging the Ajaxian guys (which I will do), we should rewrite our home page to make more apparent Cocoon's unique abilities in the changing world of webapp development.
A distinguishing feature IMO is that the Cocoon platform sits inbetween hardcore J2EE and scripted frameworks: - it is based on Java and thus has access to everything that's available in Java (huge amount of libraries, "enterprise-class" systems such as workflow engines, transaction manager, etc) - it is highly scripted, allowing rapid application prototyping and development, - our script language (contrarily to RoR) is JavaScript, which is widespread and gaining a lot of interest because of Ajax, - it doesn't lock development in scripting: prototype quickly with JS, then, if needed, translate to faster but more verbose Java.
Add a few cool Ajax demos to the mix and this makes Cocoon a sexy and modern development platform.
WDYT? Sylvain [1] http://www.ajaxian.com/archives/2005/10/audible_ajax_ep_2.html [2] http://www.ajaxian.com/archives/2005/10/audible_ajax_ep_3.html -- Sylvain Wallez Anyware Technologies http://people.apache.org/~sylvain http://www.anyware-tech.com Apache Software Foundation Member Research & Technology Director
