Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-24 Thread Peter Hunsberger
On 10/23/05, Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter, thanks so much for this, great plug for me to start. No problem, I was wired on coffee after a nice long dinner party and unable to sleep and I had wanted to revive this thread for some time... Just a couple of comments: snip/

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-23 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Peter, thanks so much for this, great plug for me to start. Peter Hunsberger wrote: On 9/30/05, Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was a moment where I could have been one of the first people to respond to this thread, you just happened to ask this question when I was watching

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-21 Thread Peter Hunsberger
On 9/30/05, Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was a moment where I could have been one of the first people to respond to this thread, you just happened to ask this question when I was watching the Cocoon mailing list for some reason or other. However, in spite of the fact I've

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-15 Thread Joerg Heinicke
On 14.10.2005 15:07, Vadim Gritsenko wrote: I do not really understand a helper class as an API. Furthermore it is not easy. I always have to look up how to write the code. Decision was made early in 2.0 dev cycle to have objectModel Map as a contract between Cocoon and components: That

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-14 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Joerg Heinicke wrote: On 12.10.2005 05:01, Vadim Gritsenko wrote: Take even such a simple task as accessing session/request/etc. ObjectModelHelper appears several times. I do not really understand a helper class as an API. Furthermore it is not easy. I always have to look up how to write

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-13 Thread Joerg Heinicke
On 12.10.2005 05:01, Vadim Gritsenko wrote: Take even such a simple task as accessing session/request/etc. ObjectModelHelper appears several times. I do not really understand a helper class as an API. Furthermore it is not easy. I always have to look up how to write the code. Jörg

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-13 Thread Joerg Heinicke
On 12.10.2005 13:52, Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: But even then you realize that accessing the natural functionality (and power) of Cocoon is often very difficult, because there is no obvious API and no function library to access the core functionality. BTW, this is the most negative issue

javadocs navigation (was: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?)

2005-10-12 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 12 oct. 05, à 05:16, Stefano Mazzocchi a écrit : ...I think a better, leaner, cleaner javadoc would go a *LNG* way to make things easier... I was thinking about that recently - does anyone know a tool for tag-based navigation of javadocs? A better *navigation* of the javadocs, like

RE: javadocs navigation (was: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?)

2005-10-12 Thread Max Pfingsthorn
... I was thinking about that recently - does anyone know a tool for tag-based navigation of javadocs? A better *navigation* of the javadocs, like being able to see all classes which have the sitemap generator tags, would help a lot. Can't you use the refdoc stuff for that? If it's not

Re: javadocs navigation (was: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?)

2005-10-12 Thread Torsten Curdt
On 12.10.2005, at 08:20, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 12 oct. 05, à 05:16, Stefano Mazzocchi a écrit : ...I think a better, leaner, cleaner javadoc would go a *LNG* way to make things easier... I was thinking about that recently - does anyone know a tool for tag-based navigation

Re: javadocs navigation (was: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?)

2005-10-12 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 12 oct. 05, à 09:32, Max Pfingsthorn a écrit : ...Can't you use the refdoc stuff for that? If it's not ready, which I guess it isn't from the STATUS at http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/gsoc/rgraham/refdoc/STATUS, I could take it from where Robert left it... It's not far from being

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-12 Thread Daniel Fagerstrom
Joerg Heinicke wrote: Jaka Jaksic jaka.jaksic at telemach.net writes: But even then you realize that accessing the natural functionality (and power) of Cocoon is often very difficult, because there is no obvious API and no function library to access the core functionality. BTW, this

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-11 Thread Joerg Heinicke
Jaka Jaksic jaka.jaksic at telemach.net writes: But even then you realize that accessing the natural functionality (and power) of Cocoon is often very difficult, because there is no obvious API and no function library to access the core functionality. BTW, this is the most negative issue with

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-11 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Joerg Heinicke wrote: Jaka Jaksic jaka.jaksic at telemach.net writes: But even then you realize that accessing the natural functionality (and power) of Cocoon is often very difficult, because there is no obvious API and no function library to access the core functionality. BTW, this is the

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-11 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: *my* problem is http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/apidocs/ Look at it... it's a monster... it includes *everything*. A javadoc is useless if it's too big to be used as a reference. Isn't it *meant* to include everything? Isn't it the root idea of javadoc? Personally I'd

Re: Lazy mode (was Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?)

2005-10-10 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
Berin Loritsch wrote: The Ruby on Rails solution is to use an environment variable that defaulted to Development. In production the environment variable would be set on the server to Production. For the unit tests, the generators automatically run in Test mode. Now, I know that Java 5

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-05 Thread Steven Noels
On 04 Oct 2005, at 18:08, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Steven and Daniel, I'm sorry, but your comments prove my point. Sylvain was the only one understanding what this was all about [1]: a wake up call. If you emphasize style over content, don't be surprised if people disregard the latter.

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-04 Thread Steven Noels
On 03 Oct 2005, at 21:30, Antonio Gallardo wrote: Great comment, Steven. I feel my self direct addressed with this statement. I wonder why you should, really. Quite the opposite, actually. Now, I know what this work means for other community members. I think you're doing an ace job

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-04 Thread Daniel Fagerstrom
Steven Noels wrote: ... The same kind of wonder I had when this thread started - as in oh no, this is sooo easy and self-centered!. Yes self-centered and irresponsible. --- o0o --- Stefano, We are a large number of people who got inspired of your visions and have

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-04 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 4 Oct 2005, at 10:16, Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: [...] You really don't help us. Are you sure about this? Especially when you say: [...] We are a strong community with a great product that is going to be even greater, we can make it. The first resource of open-source is ego. Since

jdk 1.3: thanks (was: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?)

2005-10-04 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 3 oct. 05, à 21:30, Antonio Gallardo a écrit : ...I WASTED not only my last weekend, but a lot of time keeping the f*** java 1.3 compatibility... I agree about the *** but anyway, THANKS Antonio for this work. Keeping 1.3 compatibility for the 2.1.x branch has been a community decision

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-04 Thread Daniel Fagerstrom
Pier Fumagalli wrote: On 4 Oct 2005, at 10:16, Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: [...] You really don't help us. Are you sure about this? Especially when you say: [...] We are a strong community with a great product that is going to be even greater, we can make it. The first resource of

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-04 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: Steven Noels wrote: ... The same kind of wonder I had when this thread started - as in oh no, this is sooo easy and self-centered!. Yes self-centered and irresponsible. LOL Steven and Daniel, I'm sorry, but your comments prove my point. Sylvain was the only one

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-04 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: Steven Noels wrote: ... The same kind of wonder I had when this thread started - as in oh no, this is sooo easy and self-centered!. Yes self-centered and irresponsible. LOL Steven and Daniel, I'm sorry, but your comments prove my

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-04 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Stefano, We are a large number of people who got inspired of your visions and have spent years on develop and implement them. Some have even built companies around Cocoon. Now everyone who want to start using Cocoon in a project, sell products based on it or services

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi all, I'll comment on a few snippets of what Stefano said, apart from that I tend to agree with most of what's been said by others. Le 30 sept. 05, à 23:57, Stefano Mazzocchi a écrit : ...A phase transition is when you strongly believe in something, then you strongly change your mind.

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: snip/ For me that's where Cocoon is today: more mature, slightly less exciting, but more capable than ever. We just have to stay on our toes to keep it fit. +1. More thoughts here: http://www.anyware-tech.com/blogs/sylvain/archives/000217.html Sylvain --

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Jorg Heymans
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: How do you feel about this? Will Cocoon become obsolete When will Cocoon become obsolete would have been more appropriate (albeit less controversial) subjects I feel. My thoughts: (Note: we = the community) Software = life. If it doesn't evolve it dies. We have the

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Jorg Heymans
Luca Morandini wrote: Consider: 1) Declining cocoon-users activity. This worries me as well, especially the last couple of months it has become very obvious [1]. Why? you might ask: Is the framework stable? Have most issues been solved/answered already? Does everything Just Work(tm) and we

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Andrew Savory
Hi, On 3 Oct 2005, at 12:09, Jorg Heymans wrote: marketing type=idea Lets do a video like Rails [2], a picture says more than a thousand words, a video more than a thousand pictures! WDOT? Can something like this put us to shame or work in our advantage? /marketing *sob* Stop it! Stop it!

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Ralph Goers
Tony Collen wrote: 2. In the 4-or-so years I've been involved with the community, I've *never* built a production website with Cocoon, and I highly doubt I ever will. It hasn't caught on here in the states as much as Struts has, or JSF could. I was holding out hope for a Cocoon type job,

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Thomas Lutz
Jorg Heymans wrote: Luca Morandini wrote: Consider: 1) Declining cocoon-users activity. This worries me as well, especially the last couple of months it has become very obvious [1]. Why? you might ask: Is the framework stable? Have most issues been solved/answered already? Does

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Jorg Heymans wrote: Luca Morandini wrote: Consider: 1) Declining cocoon-users activity. This worries me as well, especially the last couple of months it has become very obvious [1]. Why? you might ask: Is the framework stable? Have most issues been solved/answered already? Does

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Jorg Heymans
Andrew Savory wrote: *sob* Stop it! Stop it! You're all describing my GT presentation! ROFL Here's a sneak preview of the first 30 seconds, without sound: http://www.luminas.co.uk/andrew/raccoon_first_30s.mov mighty cool, can't wait to see the rest!!! Jorg

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Andrew Savory wrote: Hi, On 3 Oct 2005, at 12:09, Jorg Heymans wrote: marketing type=idea Lets do a video like Rails [2], a picture says more than a thousand words, a video more than a thousand pictures! WDOT? Can something like this put us to shame or work in our advantage? /marketing

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Luca Morandini
Jorg Heymans wrote: Luca Morandini wrote: often discussed here, very true - as much as we hate (to admit) it ;) marketing type=idea Lets do a video like Rails [2], a picture says more than a thousand words, a video more than a thousand pictures! WDOT? Can something like this put us to shame

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Andrew Savory
Hi, On 3 Oct 2005, at 13:18, Sylvain Wallez wrote: Here's a sneak preview of the first 30 seconds, without sound: http://www.luminas.co.uk/andrew/raccoon_first_30s.mov Kewl! If it's based on the 2.2 branch, you may reduce startup time by adding

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Jorg Heymans
Luca Morandini wrote: 4) I liked the Scaffold concept, which we may replicate: not just samples, but ready-made apps to help people hit the ground running when developing an app. I mean, we could have a reporting scaffold, or a These scaffolds can be easily built using m2 archetypes [1].

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Tony Collen
Luca Morandini wrote: 4) I liked the Scaffold concept, which we may replicate: not just samples, but ready-made apps to help people hit the ground running when developing an app. I mean, we could have a reporting scaffold, or a multi-channel publishing scaffold, or a GIS scaffold (you

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Jorg Heymans
curse you CTRL-ENTER! Jorg Heymans wrote: These scaffolds can be easily built using m2 archetypes [1]. I'll try and whip up a basic prototype on my way to the hackathon. If done right ... if done right this could become an easy entry point for first time users. Rather than downloading

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Upayavira
Jorg Heymans wrote: curse you CTRL-ENTER! Jorg Heymans wrote: These scaffolds can be easily built using m2 archetypes [1]. I'll try and whip up a basic prototype on my way to the hackathon. If done right ... if done right this could become an easy entry point for first time users. Rather

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Luca Morandini wrote: FWIW, my comments: 1) Videos are great communication tools, and nothing prevent us from making them, I suppose. 2) This RoR video was good stuff, especially for people building simple, self-contained apps. 3) I liked the ActiveRecords part, which is something we have to

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Berin Loritsch
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Kewl! If it's based on the 2.2 branch, you may reduce startup time by adding JAVA_OPTIONS=-Dorg.apache.cocoon.core.LazyMode=true in the launch script (BTW, should we make this the default?) IMO Yes. Anything that helps us work more efficiently should be default.

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Luca Morandini
Jorg Heymans wrote: I'm also thinking about archetypes for popular framework combos, like CForms/hibernate, Cocoon/Spring, and often used block combos like portal/, fop/svg and ofcourse asciiart/midi ;) Hmm... I was thinking more in terms of user-visible functionalities rather than in terms

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Jorg Heymans
Upayavira wrote: m2 archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=cocoon-archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=cforms-hibernate -Dversion2.1.9 And then you stick a pretty UI in front of that, because that command is likely to frighten the willies out of any Cocoon newbie! :-) yes, anything that makes

Lazy mode (was Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?)

2005-10-03 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Berin Loritsch wrote: Sylvain Wallez wrote: Kewl! If it's based on the 2.2 branch, you may reduce startup time by adding JAVA_OPTIONS=-Dorg.apache.cocoon.core.LazyMode=true in the launch script (BTW, should we make this the default?) IMO Yes. Anything that helps us work more

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Jorg Heymans
Luca Morandini wrote: Hmm... I was thinking more in terms of user-visible functionalities rather than in terms of underlying technologies. Look, if one is going to use Spring, he won't be impressed by a canned app; on the contrary, such a canned app will make a splash on the average guy

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Steven Noels
On 03 Oct 2005, at 16:29, Jorg Heymans wrote: Upayavira wrote: m2 archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=cocoon-archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=cforms-hibernate -Dversion2.1.9 And then you stick a pretty UI in front of that, because that command is likely to frighten the willies out of any

Re: Lazy mode (was Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?)

2005-10-03 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Agree, but on the other hand, this lazy-loading of components mean that some buggy declarations will not be detected at startup time, which would be better in a production environment. This leads again to the discussion about running modes [1] where some

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Ross Gardler wrote: ... a rich client requires higher bandwidth. This argument absolutely bogus. Google Maps, for example, is a way richer client than, say, MapQuest but consumes a fraction of the bandwidth, because using the web in a more architecturally consistent way, it can take

Re: Lazy mode (was Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?)

2005-10-03 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Carsten Ziegeler wrote: Sylvain Wallez wrote: Agree, but on the other hand, this lazy-loading of components mean that some buggy declarations will not be detected at startup time, which would be better in a production environment. This leads again to the discussion about running modes

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Daniel Fagerstrom
Steven Noels wrote: IMHO, eye candy, blocks-I'll-commit-rather-than-shepherd-myself and featuritis without proper consideration and restraint is what is killing Cocoon. Much of this could be tackled by divorcing the core from the (figuratively speaking) crap, hard and fast. The good stuff

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Ross Gardler wrote: ... a rich client requires higher bandwidth. This argument absolutely bogus. Google Maps, for example, is a way richer client than, say, MapQuest but consumes a fraction of the bandwidth, because using the web in a more architecturally

Re: Lazy mode (was Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?)

2005-10-03 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Interesting question. If we ship with dev mode on, many people will deploy in dev mode. On the other hand, if we ship in production mode, many people won't see the features of dev mode. Exactly :( A solution is to ship in dev mode, but ensure that people know

Re: Lazy mode (was Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?)

2005-10-03 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Carsten Ziegeler wrote: Sylvain Wallez wrote: Interesting question. If we ship with dev mode on, many people will deploy in dev mode. On the other hand, if we ship in production mode, many people won't see the features of dev mode. Exactly :( A solution is to ship in dev mode,

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Luca Morandini
Sylvain Wallez wrote: I would (and actually do) use Mappy (http://www.mappy.com/), which has provided for ages a flash-based GUI that receives vector data from the server, and which is snappier than GMaps. Bitmaps suck when it comes to GIS! Up to a point, Sylvian... if you're talking about

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Andrew Savory
Hi, On 3 Oct 2005, at 17:04, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I guess you are not aware of this http://rx4rdf.liminalzone.org/Racoon Heheh, no I wasn't. I also was unaware of Racoon the dutch rock band, or racoon the IKE (ISAKMP/Oakley) key management daemon, and apparently there's a small

Re: Lazy mode (was Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?)

2005-10-03 Thread Berin Loritsch
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Interesting question. If we ship with dev mode on, many people will deploy in dev mode. On the other hand, if we ship in production mode, many people won't see the features of dev mode. A solution is to ship in dev mode, but ensure that people know they're in dev

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Luca Morandini wrote: Sylvain Wallez wrote: I would (and actually do) use Mappy (http://www.mappy.com/), which has provided for ages a flash-based GUI that receives vector data from the server, and which is snappier than GMaps. Bitmaps suck when it comes to GIS! Up to a point, Sylvian...

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Ross Gardler
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Ross Gardler wrote: ... a rich client requires higher bandwidth. This argument absolutely bogus. Google Maps, for example, is a way richer client than, say, MapQuest but consumes a fraction of the bandwidth, because using the web in a more architecturally

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Luca Morandini
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Luca Morandini wrote: Sylvain Wallez wrote: I would (and actually do) use Mappy (http://www.mappy.com/), which has provided for ages a flash-based GUI that receives vector data from the server, and which is snappier than GMaps. Bitmaps suck when it comes to GIS! Up

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: My life regarding software goes thru phases. A phase transition is when you strongly believe in something, then you strongly change your mind. Others call it a 'revelation', others think you lost your mind. I wrote Cocoon as a way to help achieving a more coherent

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Steven Noels wrote: Now, in an environment where every committer/consultant worries about his own private customers and their JDK version numbers, I wonder if and when this will ever take off. In an environment where consultants expect the project to care for the fact they try to make money

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-03 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Thomas Lutz wrote: snip/ That's the problem ! You're perfectly right. Every month I have to re-convince my boss, that it was the right decision to kick out struts and use cocoon instead. What he tells me is google around, and you'll find struts, tapestry, turbine in almost every blog, onjava

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-02 Thread Joerg Heinicke
On 30.09.2005 23:57, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Over the last 6 months, I worked pretty heavily on Mozilla as a platform. As you might know I (or we at Virbus at that time) have created an application built on Mozilla [1] [2]. but most important, is that pretty much everything that cocoon

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-02 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Joerg Heinicke wrote: On 30.09.2005 23:57, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Over the last 6 months, I worked pretty heavily on Mozilla as a platform. As you might know I (or we at Virbus at that time) have created an application built on Mozilla [1] [2]. but most important, is that pretty much

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-02 Thread Daniel Fagerstrom
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: ... The strong architectural parallel between mozilla and cocoon, makes me very hopeful in the future of mozilla as a platform, even if there are years ahead of polishing to do. I also want the GUI executed in the browser, but as many allready have said, the future

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-02 Thread Luca Morandini
Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: if we succeed in attracting a large user base, Are we ? Consider: 1) Declining cocoon-users activity. 2) Reduced attendance (so far) to GetTogether (and it shouldn't be, since Amsterdam is a more accessible, if less fascinating, location). 3) Struts being more and

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-02 Thread Daniel Fagerstrom
Luca Morandini wrote: Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: if we succeed in attracting a large user base, Are we ? Consider: 1) Declining cocoon-users activity. 2) Reduced attendance (so far) to GetTogether (and it shouldn't be, since Amsterdam is a more accessible, if less fascinating, location).

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-02 Thread Luca Morandini
Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: Luca Morandini wrote: Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: if we succeed in attracting a large user base, Are we ? Consider: 1) Declining cocoon-users activity. 2) Reduced attendance (so far) to GetTogether (and it shouldn't be, since Amsterdam is a more accessible, if less

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-02 Thread Andreas Petter
Hello! I'm not a Cocoon platform developer, but I dare to submit to this thread, because it sounds rather... depressive. No! Cocoon is not obsolete! Cocoon is neither obsolete nor deprecated, except that everyone defines it to be, by not improving it. Evolution is taking place in domains that

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-02 Thread Torsten Curdt
...very interesting RT. I had to wait and sort my thoughts a bit before responding. I think your perception of cocoon being kinda 'done' applies to its general idea. We have shown what is possible ...but IMO there is left sooo much room for improvement. They might not be as ground breaking

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-02 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Hi Stefano: I am glad to see you again on the list. :-) 2 days ago, I wrote an answer with some of the arguments that other people already replied to this thread. Between them: 1. Mobile devices taking off -- still a lot of other platforms to publishing. 2. Nature of software evolution in

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-02 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 2 oct. 05, à 21:02, Antonio Gallardo a écrit : ...I found a new interesting link [3], I didn't check is this is really an active project. ... [3] http://cforms-xul.tigris.org/ Sidenote: this is probably related to http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@cocoon.apache.org/msg31982.html (still

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-02 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 2 oct. 05, à 21:02, Antonio Gallardo a écrit : ...I found a new interesting link [3], I didn't check is this is really an active project. ... [3] http://cforms-xul.tigris.org/ Sidenote: this is probably related to

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-02 Thread Ross Gardler
One other significant point to the many arguments as to why Cocoon is *not* obsolete is that a rich client requires higher bandwidth. We tend to think that bandwidth is limitless and cheap, and to many of us it is getting that way. However, for a large section of the world, those on the other

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-02 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 2 oct. 05, à 21:48, Antonio Gallardo a écrit : Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: ...[3] http://cforms-xul.tigris.org/ Sidenote: this is probably related to http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@cocoon.apache.org/msg31982.html.. ...?? I am clueless. Can you give more hints? :-( If you look at

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-02 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 2 oct. 05, à 21:48, Antonio Gallardo a écrit : Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: ...[3] http://cforms-xul.tigris.org/ Sidenote: this is probably related to http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@cocoon.apache.org/msg31982.html.. ...?? I am clueless. Can you give

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-02 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Ross Gardler wrote: One other significant point to the many arguments as to why Cocoon is *not* obsolete is that a rich client requires higher bandwidth. We tend to think that bandwidth is limitless and cheap, and to many of us it is getting that way. However, for a large section of the

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-02 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 30 Sep 2005, at 22:57, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: How do you feel about this? Funnny enough, I was thinking about this lately... Cocoon is not obsolete. It's publishing paradigm, though, is de facto being obsoletized by a new world of richer clients integrating data services from

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-02 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Monday 03 October 2005 04:11, Ross Gardler wrote: One other significant point to the many arguments as to why Cocoon is *not* obsolete is that a rich client requires higher bandwidth. I agree with Antonio that the above statement is not a fact, but a circumstance around the particular

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-02 Thread Reinhard Poetz
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I do that for my latest web sites and the more I learn how to driven the client, the less I feel the need for advanced server frameworks. Is it just me? You describe the revolution from the client side. The other part of the (r)evolution takes place on the server

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-01 Thread Andrew Savory
Hi, I think Stefano raises some interesting issues, but there's a flaw in the premise: is everything we do in Cocoon targeted at a browser- based client model? I don't think so. It discounts Cocoon as an integration framework, an XML-based service bus (urgh, buzzword bingo time), and

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-01 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
I won't reply to this thread until I let more people verbalize their feelings, but this is OT enough for me to reply now. Niclas Hedhman wrote: (Not the mentioning of 'What happened to the RDF promise in Cocoon??') Are you mentioning the ability to add RDF metadata to our real blocks (as,

RE: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-01 Thread Jaka Jaksic
Hi! I am no Cocoon developer, but I have been working with it, together with my team, since january, developing a real production application :). So having written quite a large number of components (or are they services?) and traced through the Cocoon code countless times, I think I might have

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-10-01 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Sunday 02 October 2005 09:41, Jaka Jaksic wrote: What I'd like to have is the ability to split sitemaps into several *files* (not subsitemaps!) and bind them together with simple include operations. That way you could split your sitemaps into smaller parts however you wished, and also share

[RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-09-30 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
My life regarding software goes thru phases. A phase transition is when you strongly believe in something, then you strongly change your mind. Others call it a 'revelation', others think you lost your mind. I wrote Cocoon as a way to help achieving a more coherent look and feel for the apache

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-09-30 Thread Sebastien Arbogast
My life regarding software goes thru phases. A phase transition is when you strongly believe in something, then you strongly change your mind. Others call it a 'revelation', others think you lost your mind. I wrote Cocoon as a way to help achieving a more coherent look and feel for the

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-09-30 Thread Ralph Goers
As I am about to leave for the airport I really don't have a lot of time to respond to this or think much about it, so this is pretty much just a gut reaction. But in a nutshell, while you ultimately may be right (although I kinda doubt it) you are certainly very premature. Microsoft still

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-09-30 Thread Leo Sutic
On 9/30/05, Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you feel about this? Stefano, you always have very interesting RTs. (They're pretty structured, too, so I wonder if you shouldn't tag them [PT] for Philosophical Thought or [HT] for Hard Thought.) I think you're right on your

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-09-30 Thread Berin Loritsch
Very interesting read. As with all inovations, the greatest achievements are usually the side issues. The SoC, component frameworks, et al, helped improve the way we think about approaching the development of software. While that has little to do with web publication, the contributions to

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-09-30 Thread Tony Collen
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: snip/ If you ask me, the current infatuation with Ruby on Rails and friends, while understanding and to the point (the need to avoid XML pushups, so true), will fail dramatically short in scale to complex systems. Just like M$ Word is great to write one/two pages and

Re: [RT] Is Cocoon Obsolete?

2005-09-30 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Saturday 01 October 2005 05:57, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: How do you feel about this? I think you have a few strong points, as do the others. When Cocoon first materialized, its concepts were fairly revolutionary and advanced for its time. IMHO, too much focus on Cocoon has been add this