Cocoon: Building XML Applications

Using Cocoon to Meet the Challenges

This chapter dealt with the various challenges a modern Internet application architecture must address in order to be a success:

• Flexible publication of data to various formats

• Integration of diverse data sources

• Personalization of content

• Integration of applications

• Platform-independent solution

• Flexible architecture

There are probably also other challenges that arise from specific situations, such as what type of application to build or the exact type of data sources to be integrated, but these challenges are the ones we hear most often from our customers when confronted with a new middleware solution.

Another challenge that you have perhaps missed up to now is that of the solution’s cost. Some solutions, such ...