Hi Robby,
We have about 12-14 production intranet web "apps" (as we call them --
not in the maven or C3 sense of "webapp"), which are all running under a
single instance of Cocoon 2.1.11 under Tomcat 7.
Most of them access a SQL Server database on the back end; some also
access a remote Oracle db.
Some of the "apps" call each other (using "cocoon:/" or "cocoon://"
URLs) so as to aggregate, filter, or process each other's results.
Sometimes they use the SourceWritingTransformer to write their results
to files in a data folder that is shared by multiple "apps". Not
uncommonly we use CInclude to dynamically determine what Cocoon
pipelines to invoke. Sometimes we use ValidationTransformer to validate
XML according to schemas (DTD, RNG).
Mostly though they just use standard XML pipelines, grabbing data from a
relational database (using XSP pages or SQL Transformer), then using
XSLT to transform it (sometimes in several successive transformations)
to XML or HTML.
I'm not sure what other requirements to write about.
My guess at this point is that each of our "apps" could be modeled as a
Cocoon 3 block, corresponding to "mysite" in Francesco's instructions.
Can Cocoon 3 blocks call each other by URL from their sitemaps?
Regards,
Lars
On 3/21/2012 3:10 PM, Robby Pelssers wrote:
Hi Lars, I'm pretty sure you're almost there.
Just out of curiosity. What is the use case you will be using Cocoon
for? I'm myself still pretty new to C3 as well but I'm up for doing
a bit of paired programming ;-) If you are able to define a small use
case including requirements I'm willing to check how you could
accomplish this using C3. Would be a nice exercise for myself as well.
Robby
