RE: Cocoon is complex, but worth it! Some Answers to your dilemma

2003-01-27 Thread Hunsberger, Peter
Thanks for the reply. I still, however, cant figure out how to get a hello world working on a clean war without all of the other crap in the cocoon war. Robert, It seems you really have two requirements for Cocoon: 1) learning how to create a simple Cocoon app; 2) learning how to build a

RE: Cocoon is complex, but worth it! Some Answers to your dilemma

2003-01-27 Thread Geoff Howard
For what it's worth, I walked through the steps for building the minimal war he was looking for on Saturday, sent him the binary war (5 meg) and posted the steps on the wiki. He's already written a first custom generator that connects to his ejbs and seems much happier now. He's started to refer

RE: Cocoon is complex, but worth it! Some Answers to your dilemma

2003-01-27 Thread Hunsberger, Peter
For what it's worth, I walked through the steps for building the minimal war he was looking for on Saturday, sent him the binary war (5 meg) and posted the steps on the wiki. He's already written a first custom generator that connects to his ejbs and seems much happier now. He's started to

RE: Cocoon is complex, but worth it! Some Answers to your dilemma

2003-01-27 Thread Geoff Howard
-Original Message- From: Hunsberger, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 12:43 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Cocoon is complex, but worth it! Some Answers to your dilemma For what it's worth, I walked through the steps for building the

Re: Cocoon is complex, but worth it! Some Answers to your dilemma

2003-01-27 Thread Steven Noels
Hunsberger, Peter wrote: Yes, I saw that. I'm only now catching up with the 280 e-mails I had this morning: that's what I get for being off-line all weekend; new baby girl at home, who has time for computers :-) Congrats! /Steven -- Steven Noels

Re: Cocoon is complex, but worth it! Some Answers to your dilemma

2003-01-26 Thread Niclas Hedhman
First of all, I generally agree with you Robert. 1. Cocoon is overly daunting at first sight. 2. MS get you going much faster. 3. Separation between User and Developer must be stronger. 4. Point-Click deployment tools should become a priority. There are a few things I don't agree with; 1. I

Re: Cocoon is complex, but worth it! Some Answers to your dilemma

2003-01-25 Thread Julian Klein
First off I made some suggestions to your questions/problems below...skip ahead if you don't want my commentary on Cocoon. Well it seems to me that when I started with Cocoon, I was hoping to jump right on in. Unfortunately, it was not that easy, but not b/c of Cocoon, rather my limited

Re: Cocoon is complex, but worth it! Some Answers to your dilemma

2003-01-25 Thread Robert Simmons
Great. Thanks for the information. However the questions are still thick as pea soup. If I don't want to deploy all the cocoon jars in my war, I have to put them somewhere. It has been suggested that I put them in the tomcat lib directory. Ok fine, then how does one configure it? My goal is to

Re: Cocoon is complex, but worth it! Some Answers to your dilemma

2003-01-25 Thread SAXESS - Hussayn Dabbous
I am with cocoon for about three months now and i remember my own frustrations when i started as a newbie. From this thread and other emails within this list and from my personal experience with cocoon i conclude: 1.) cocoon gains high (initial) attraction (many newbies questions) 2.) cocoon is

Re: Cocoon is complex, but worth it! Some Answers to your dilemma

2003-01-25 Thread Robert Simmons
Thanks for the reply. I still, however, cant figure out how to get a hello world working on a clean war without all of the other crap in the cocoon war. The configuration file is just plain staggering to say the least. And looking at some pages that use cocoon, I'm starting to have second

Re: Cocoon is complex, but worth it! Some Answers to your dilemma

2003-01-25 Thread SAXESS - Hussayn Dabbous
depending on what you are doing with cocoon, you get quite amazing performance due to caching. My website is completely done in XML and using cocoon. and its almost as performant as with ordinary html. I was really amazed when i saw this although the site is super simple... http://www.saxess.de I

Re: Cocoon is complex, but worth it! Some Answers to your dilemma

2003-01-25 Thread Steven Noels
Robert Simmons wrote: know. The Wiki page runs very slow for me and a tutorial linked to me again: _what_ Wiki are you referring to? If it's http://wiki.cocoondev.org/, please quantify how slow, so that I can get a grip on it. That Wiki is built using plain JSP taglibs, BTW. Nothing to do

Re: Cocoon is complex, but worth it! Some Answers to your dilemma

2003-01-25 Thread Antonio Gallardo
You really does dont want the help people give you: Please just click here: http://wiki.cocoondev.org/Wiki.jsp?page=Tutorials and you will be ready after 3 hours. Please read just the 1st tutorial from IBM developerworks. Antonio Gallardo.

Re: Cocoon is complex, but worth it! Some Answers to your dilemma

2003-01-25 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Robert Simmons dijo: No professional dev wants, or has the time, to blow 2 to three weeks just to get separation of logic and presentation. How you think a Professional developer do that? I ended my Master Degree in Computer Science in 1995 just before Java hits the streets and Windows 95 was

RE: Cocoon is complex, but worth it! Some Answers to your dilemma

2003-01-25 Thread Geoff Howard
Try to follow the instructions at the following page I just created: http://wiki.cocoondev.org/Wiki.jsp?page=CreateMinimalWebapp Ignore the comments obviously geared at making this part of the build (and possibly part of the release.) You'll need a source distribution of Cocoon 2.0.4, which I

Re: Cocoon is complex, but worth it! Some Answers to your dilemma

2003-01-25 Thread Robert Simmons
Robert Simmons dijo: No professional dev wants, or has the time, to blow 2 to three weeks just to get separation of logic and presentation. How you think a Professional developer do that? I ended my Master Degree in Computer Science in 1995 just before Java hits the streets and Windows 95

Re: Cocoon is complex, but worth it! Some Answers to your dilemma

2003-01-25 Thread Lajos
Hi Robert - Ok, my turn to weigh in. First off, one first principle about any technology is that it's usability and suitability are largely subjective. Over the years, I have found that many technologies - JSP, EJBs, PHP, Perl/CGI, ActiveX, etc. - can work great if YOU like them and know how

Re: Cocoon is complex, but worth it! Some Answers to your dilemma

2003-01-25 Thread Robert Simmons
Hi Robert - Ok, my turn to weigh in. First off, one first principle about any technology is that it's usability and suitability are largely subjective. Over the years, I have found that many technologies - JSP, EJBs, PHP, Perl/CGI, ActiveX, etc. - can work great if YOU like them and know