On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Ambar Roy wrote:
> > I was about to start out on it. Have you tried it out already? What are
> > your feedback? Also, which XML parser library would you be using? the SAX
> > one or XML4J?
>
> i was going thru the apache cocoon site.. and i hav yet to decide on this
> technology. what i wan't to know is that can this technology be used for
> large sites which r 100% dynamic.. something like an e-commerce site or a
> personlized portal.. i undertand that xml wud make life easier for my team
> to develop something like this, but is it feasible for a large site...
> cocoon looks very promissing especially cocoon v2.0.. right now we r
> developing using plain java servlets..
>
Cocoon IS supposed to be used on large, 100% dynamic sites. The best part
is that all the content, frontend and business logic is separeted so that
your team can work much more easily. XML based content(written by your
content managers) is converted to the requested document type on the fly
(be it HTML or PDF or WML) after being transformed through the appropriate
XSL stylesheet(written by your designers) interpersed with your business
logic(written by your programmers - I am still not clear on this part).
But the problem is in the processing capability. These sort of conversions
can't be done in real time with existing infrastructure. Most of the
cocoon work being done now is to minimise this processing time, but they
still admit that it can't be done in real time in commonly available
infrastructure.
But it is a great concept. And worth keeping track of. This is definitely
the future in which web content management would progress.
- Sandip
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