On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 10:38 +1000, Michael Ralston wrote: > On 7/10/07, Thorsten Scherler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 07:51 +1000, Michael Ralston wrote: > > > > > > To be honest, I'm sick of lenya. Because I recommended it to my > > > employer and subsequently developed with it, I lost my job. > > > > > > > The problem in your case I see is that you tried to change/rewrite lenya > > completely regarding the backend. When I first read on the ml I thought > > by myself it is overkill for one person and reading your mail now I > > guess it really was. > > > > I do not think that the choice for Lenya is singly responsible for the > > outcome of your recommendation/development. I guess that would have > > happened with any other open source cms where you tried that radical > > changes on your own. > > > > The core code which ran my backend was only 2-3 weeks of one person's > work. That part of the code worked fine. It all fell apart when I > tried to make lenya do more dynamic things like an amazon style > shopping system with categorized products, searching, and ecommerce > integration. > > I don't think that sort of thing would ever be possible in lenya's > current incarnation. Cocoon especially prevents lenya from being able > to render pages dynamically. Eg, the shopping cart page which shows > the products someone has selected to purchase. From memory, I got the > render time for a cart with 10-20 products down to about 0.2 seconds > of server processing. That's simply unacceptable if you're going to > have even 100 people hitting your site. > > So in essence you're right. It was overkill. I was trying to make > lenya do something it wasn't designed for.
Sad but true about the design limitations. salu2 -- Thorsten Scherler thorsten.at.apache.org Open Source Java consulting, training and solutions --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
