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Re: Would you use Cocoon to a big project?


On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Matt Watson wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to evaluate Cocoon 1.7.4 for a large project specifically for a
> car manufacturer here in the uk. The web site will be running of
> either Solaris or Linux on a middle spec machine. Do you possibly foresee
> any problems with using Cocoon? Is this to early days to consider
> it for such a project. Are there any issues that I should start to think
> about now?

There are, of course, the usual things to think about: Does your team have
the skillset to work with Cocoon? Have you evaluated the performance of
Cocoon? Does your team know Java and XML? Do you know if you can get
commercial support for Cocoon, or is mailing list support enough?

Other than that, there's the issue of the fact that the Cocoon team
recognise Cocoon 1.7.4 as partially dead-end technology, and are fully
focused on Cocoon2. This is in part because of the large amounts of RAM
that Cocoon 1 uses, and in part because of some speed issues, and in part
because of some things that just got implemented wrong (their opinion, not
mine).

Also, just to plug here, if your team consists of Perl programmers, you
might want to consider AxKit too. It implements the same basic
functionality as Cocoon (some more, some less), but within Perl.

-- 
<Matt/>

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