...Sorry for the long babbling email, I'm just wondering what sort of experiences other Cocoon users have had rolling out similar applications or sites with Cocoon 2.x. How is it with scalability, performance and stability?..
There are many examples of large-scale websites running on Cocoon, see http://cocoon.apache.org/link/livesites-2.1.html (and this does not include people who are not saying ;-)
You'll also find a list at http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/GT2004Gianugo, excerpted from the the impressive success stories that we heard at the 2004 GetTogether.
http://www.vnunet.com/ is a good example of a big site which runs on Cocoon (2.1.5 according to the HTTP headers), IIRC these guys are serving 50 pages per second on average.
On a smaller scale, the nouvo.ch website, which I built on Cocoon last year with a small team, has been running very reliably since last September, serving content from a MySQL database mapped with OJB.
The last Cocoon restart there was in January after a software update. It runs on Jetty with a very plain configuration. Actually I have to duck every time I tell this: Cocoon runs there on the standard cocoon.sh script, using a well-tuned apache HTTP front-end server of course.
-Bertrand
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