It's a 10 year old app with more than 100 XSP's and specialized tag-librarys 
depending heavily on the XSP-concept.

So that mean's I have to create a generator and a StringTemplate for each XSP. 
Am I right?

Wolfram
 
Am 16.01.2012 um 15:36 schrieb Robby Pelssers:

> I totally agree with Jos.  If your app mainly consists of transformations 
> with XSLT, you should be able to migrate within a few days.  If your complete 
> app depends on XSP’s you will have to spent a lot more time of course. But 
> we’ve been in the same situation and I guess 2 or 3 people should be able to 
> manage to port in a matter of 1 a 2 weeks.  I advise you to first follow the 
> samples demo and try to implement a few small use cases from your existing 
> app.  If you run into any issue address this to the mailinglist in order to 
> evaluate the risks upfront.
> 
> Robby
>  
> From: Jos Snellings [mailto:jos.snelli...@pandora.be] 
> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 3:05 PM
> To: dev@cocoon.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Porting to current cocoon version
>  
> Hello Wolfram,
> 
> The first. Cocoon 3 is rather a complete rewrite of the framework.
> The benefit: the dependencies of the framework have been limited to a minimum.
> A half-advantage: the scripting capabilities have been limited to 
> stringtemplate. This sort of enforces scripts to do 'strictly presentation'.
> The minus side:  old xsp scripts have to be rewritten.
> It all depends on how many xsp and flow scripts you have out there.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Jos
> 
> On 01/16/2012 02:54 PM, Wolfram Eisert wrote:
> Hello Jos,
>  
> does that mean there is no xsp available in Cocoon 3 at all or that it's just 
> not recommended?
>  
> Wolfram
> 
> 2012/1/16 Jos Snellings <jos.snelli...@pandora.be>
> Dear mr. Eisert,
> 
> 1.  I believe it does. I am using the beta version in a "preproduction 
> environment" for quite some time and it is stable.
> 2. It depends on what you mean by configuration. The sitemap will need some 
> slight adaptations.
>     Specifics from cocoon 2.2 will no longer hold.
>     - no flowscripts
>     - xsp is "banned"
>     There is a nonvanishing upgrade effort.
> 3. no, it should be written. I never used all of cocoon 2.x, but from my 
> experience:
>     - start project from 'cocoon sample and cocoon sample webapp'
>     - plan need for conversion scripts
>     - adapt sitemap
>     - adjust configuration (which is now essentially spring configuration)
>     
> it depends a great deal on what you have been using in cocoon 2.x.
> 
> Jos
> 
> 
> On 01/16/2012 12:51 PM, Wolfram Eisert wrote:
> Dear List,
>  
> we are currently using Cocoon 2.0.4 and plan to update to a newer version 
> during this year.
>  
> For that I have a few questions:
> Does it make sense to wait for Cocoon 3.0?
> Is the configuration compatible between Cocoon 2.2 and Cocoon 3.0?
> Is there a "howto" for moving from Cocoon 2.0.4 to a current Version?
> Thank you for your answers.
>  
> Wolfram
>  
> 

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