> I just started developing webapplications with struts. It's great for > the application-part of the website, but for the publishing of static > text I don't see much advantage using struts. For that I see a great > advantage in using cocoon. > > Now I didn't use cocoon yet. But for me the ideal combination > would be > that I could insert into a tiles-definition a jsp-page, a > struts-action, > a tiles-definition or a xml page. The first three would be handled by > struts and the xml-page by cocoon. > > Have anyone experience with this kind of use with cocoon and struts?
Well, I use both products. And love them both. Cocoon has some great features (mostly that you almost never write Java code + its URL sitemap system). Its major drawback is that you must be skilled in XSLT and comment your code (do it!). The other drawback I see is that design patterns with Cocoon are hard to understand at first. Your first applications are a mess where logic is hidden in different places. When skill comes, you see the big power of each component of the system and see some design patterns. These design patterns are mostly the mantra "be MVC, be MVC", so if you use Struts a lot, you won't be lost (believe me, from a PHP programmer point of view, it was harder to understand :-) Struts provides very efficient design patterns for web dev + simple and (VERY!) efficient taglibs. My main concern are for peripherical things such as URL rewriting, cache management, genericity (with Cocoon, you use Cocoon components all the time, with Struts, you use jEdit all the time :-), database access, aggregation of datasources (my god, Cocoon is so good at that!!!), HTML/PDF output. For info, my company provides an full IDE for Cocoon (data model made into Netbeans + XSL for HTML made in dreamweaver + autogeneration of forms for add/edit/delete entities of the data model :-). Now, I stop this OT about Cocoon, contact me privately for more infos. Or (as usual) mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... This e-mail is intended only for the above addressee. It may contain privileged information. If you are not the addressee you must not copy, distribute, disclose or use any of the information in it. If you have received it in error please delete it and immediately notify the sender. Security Notice: all e-mail, sent to or from this address, may be accessed by someone other than the recipient, for system management and security reasons. This access is controlled under Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, Lawful Business Practises. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
