From: Antonio Gallardo > Hi: > > I want to try some of the new spectacular technologies > sported in Cocoon :) I also will play with persistent data. > The idea is to create a simple database application using > postgres as storage of persistent data. > > After checking all the docs. For forms: I cannot decide > between JXForms and Woody? Please I need an advise from the > gurus in forms. > > For the object-database mapping is suggested Hibernate. > > I am still trying to find other ways similars to Hibernate > since it looks like Hibernate is not a favorite player > because of his LGPL license. :( > > I know there is a jakarta project related to database stuff. > DBCP is just a Database connection pool. but,
If you want to set up a Cocoon example you may have a look at http://db.apache.org/ojb/ > please note I dont want to start another war. I didn't want to start the discussion about the Cocoon Form framework until Cocoon 2.1 is released but I couldn't resist to answer on you mail ;-) JXForms is very close to the XForms standard by the W3C. The problem with this standard is that is was written for clients and not for servers. On the other hand Woody is IMO a server-side form framework with the possiblity to reuse parts. The key is that Woody uses widgets and widgets needn't be fields. So you could write a calendar widget and reuse it everywhere. Currently Woody is missing a connection to your data models. Marc already wrote RT on this topic but I have to admit that I haven't had the time to answer on them and IMO Woody needs the *possiblity* (not a must) to plug-in a global data dictionary (greetings from SAP ;-) As you can see the frameworks are different and designed with different goals. I'm not sure how those can be combined but I'm expecting Sylvains RTs (http://www.anyware-tech.com/blogs/sylvain/archives/000060.html) on it. Cheers, Reinhard
