Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: Today's scriptingNews Outline

Author:Paul Snively
Posted:11/9/1999; 9:47:00 AM
Topic:Today's scriptingNews Outline
Msg #:12890 (In response to 12879)
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Dave Winer wrote:

The Apache XML Project includes something called Cocoon 2.0, which is an XML-based CMS. I wonder why they didn't go with Zope, which is gaining a lot of momentum and would get them XML-RPC compatibility along with Python?

Historical accident, probably, more than anything else. The folks on the Cocoon project are all part of the Java Apache Project, so of course they went with Java. I don't think this is a bad thing: Java's popularity on the server continues to grow; XML's popularity continues to grow; the Java community got on XML early, recognizing it as the "portable data" to their "portable code;" Cocoon is (one of several) logical outcomes.

FWIW, I'm not sure I would call Cocoon a "CMS." An XML-based publishing system, absolutely... but I haven't seen any explicit support for the creation/maintenance of "work product," if you will.

As I've written before, I think Resin has much stronger aspirations in this regard, and probably a better XML publishing story than Cocoon, too.

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