Cocoon vs. Axkit

[Jimi Thompson <jt...@link.com>]

I am looking at moving our site toward XML simply to allow it to talk to
the  other portions of our company.  My main task is the management of
our intranet.  We'd like to expand its functionality, but our data
stores are widely separated - LDAP, Ceredian Payroll/HR, Sybase, Oracle
7, Oracle 8, Oracle 8i, PeopleSoft (vestigial holdover - ICKY!), and
some legacy mainframe apps.  Nothing is consistent except that nothing
will natively talk to anything else.  The things that will talk to each
other aren't on the same platforms.  Again, we run the gamut, Linux,
Unix, NT, and Novell.

I want to begin a gradual migration that will end up with "one stop
shopping" on our intranet.  I have been looking at various technologies
to allow me to do that.  I'd be interested in hearing what any of you
have to say regarding Cocoon and the Perl module - Axkit. 

Thanks in advance for any input,

Jimi Thompson

Re: Cocoon vs. Axkit

[Paul Russell <pa...@luminas.co.uk>]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 06:58:42PM -0600, Jimi Thompson wrote:
> I am looking at moving our site toward XML simply to allow it to talk to
> the  other portions of our company.  My main task is the management of
> our intranet.  We'd like to expand its functionality, but our data
> stores are widely separated - LDAP, Ceredian Payroll/HR, Sybase, Oracle
> 7, Oracle 8, Oracle 8i, PeopleSoft (vestigial holdover - ICKY!), and
> some legacy mainframe apps.  Nothing is consistent except that nothing
> will natively talk to anything else.  The things that will talk to each
> other aren't on the same platforms.  Again, we run the gamut, Linux,
> Unix, NT, and Novell.

Have you considered using EJB to represent all your business logic and
deal with the intricasy of dealing with the various data sources? You
could then use Cocoon1/2 (depending on the scale of the system and
estimated time to deployment) to deal with the presentation side of
things without worrying about exactly where the data comes from. That
way, when your organisation moves data from one data source to another
(peoplesoft to Oracle 9i, for example :), all you would have to modify
would be the EJBs which talk to peoplesoft.


Paul.

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