Xoplon (was: App Design Philosophy Rant)

[Ulrich Mayring <ul...@denic.de>]

Allan Erskine wrote:
> 
> I think Schemox and Lexus would be ideal canditates for logicsheets (very
> useful logicsheets at that), since
> logicsheets are the obvious forum for integrating external
> technologies....(Schemox forms filled
> with esql data + links for each row added through Lexus blah blah)...using
> the current Schemox integration seems tricky, and looks like it would need
> some recursive use of the sitemap for maximum flexibility

I agree with all your points, let me just add that I found another
related OpenSource technology, which looks like it could be integrated
into cocoon. It's an application framework called Xoplon, find it under
http://xoplon.sourceforge.net

They even use the same terminology as cocoon (producers, processors,
taglibs etc.) and it seems if we take their publishing component out and
replace it with cocoon, we would make a great leap forward in
application development.

> So my question is, and I know it's late in the day, are you all sure, sure,
> sure as can be, that maintaining the two technology bases (sitemap & XSP)
> isn't spreading each too thin?

XSP is a great integration technology. The Sitemap is like httpd.conf -
a proprietary config file written in XML-style syntax :)

Ulrich

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Ulrich Mayring
DENIC eG, Systementwicklung