Application frameworks

[Jim Richards <gr...@cyber4.org>]

(sorry if you've already got this from another list, I'm trying to canvas
as many ideas as I can)

I've been looking at several application frameworks over the last few days,
and was wondering what people were using?

In general I'd like to have my servlet generate XML output (perhaps using
ECS?) that is picked up by an XSLT engine (perhaps Cocoon?) for display
to the user to keep the content apart from the system. So far I've come across

	Turbine 		Quite well developed but requires a large amount of initial 
			knowledge to get your head around (although that's *my*
			opinion). I understand the model, but I want to use EJB for the 
			database connectivity, and Cocoon for front end processing
			which AFAIK has not been integrated fully yet (unless the
			docs haven't been updated).

	Enhydra	A full enterprise application environment. Also has the same
			problem as Turbine; large system with lots of work done
			on it. It uses a process where your HTML pages use
			<span id=""></span> tags that are replaced by the content.
			Which doesn't seem as flexible as I want. (Although there
			is a good separation between business/display/database.)

	Struts		A smaller project, designed with news models in mind. Although
			not fully developed I don't know if Cocoon XML transformation
			will work with it.

Any ideas?

thanks ...
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