After having gone through several web application frameworks, I'm looking at Cocoon, and so far I like what I see :-) In particular, I have the following requirements:
1) Must be able to map specific paths. Few frameworks support this, but Cocoon seems to be very flexible here; from what I gather the following should be possible: /foo/ : Show query form. /foo/?query=test : Invoke action and list items. /foo/123 : Invoke another action and display item. 2) Elegant templating language. JSP 2.0 (using the XML syntax) is quite nice. Cocoon's JXTemplate seems to be similar, but better (more flexible, outputs XML). 3) Simple data binding. Had a brief look at 'Woody', but it seems a bit heavy for simple forms; I'd rather not have to keep form definitions in separate files. JXForms on the other hand looks good, but can this be used inside JXTemplate files? 4) Application must be stateless. Subsequent requests may be routed to different servers. Here I see a possible problem with Cocoon, as both JXTemplate and JXForms seem to be somewhat tied to the 'flow' feature, which probably wouldn't work with our setup. Is this correct, and if yes, any suggested workarounds? I'd rather not have to end up writing my own framework :-) -- Eric Jain --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
