Tomcat + FOP is all you need
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Zope or Cocoon 2?
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since you say all your developers all "know java well" the choice is already made for you. Go with Tomcat as your servlet engine (unless you are already a J2EE shop with jboss/websphere/weblogic... instead of trying to wrangle with cocoon or cocoon2, (cocoon1 seems faster imho) i'd just go ahead and use the XSL:FO utilities from apache known as FOP. we're using FOP right now to deliver reports in PDF and print them directly from the PCL it can generate. Having the reports as XML makes sense since we can tell our SQL server to output XML and all we have to do is tell FOP to render it with appropriate XSL. Rendering HTML is simple also - we just transform it on the fly with xalan/xerces.
good luck!
Home Depot IT no longer cluefull...
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Gift Card Hacking
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well some noteworthy news... Ron Griffiths, the CIO of Home Depot who despised Microsoft quit. a new CEO came in, and the CIO up and quit cuz he didnt wanna stick around under the new CEO. dont be surprised to see all the wonderful Linux POS and non Microsoft Home Depot stuff get chucked out in favor of Microsoft deals and software.
Rumor is that there already was a deal with Microsoft to kill off those Linux POS registers.
at which point, you could just hack the register and not need to bother hacking the gift cards...
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since you say all your developers all "know java well" the choice is already made for you. Go with Tomcat as your servlet engine (unless you are already a J2EE shop with jboss/websphere/weblogic...
instead of trying to wrangle with cocoon or cocoon2, (cocoon1 seems faster imho) i'd just go ahead and use the XSL:FO utilities from apache known as FOP. we're using FOP right now to deliver reports in PDF and print them directly from the PCL it can generate. Having the reports as XML makes sense since we can tell our SQL server to output XML and all we have to do is tell FOP to render it with appropriate XSL. Rendering HTML is simple also - we just transform it on the fly with xalan/xerces.
good luck!
well some noteworthy news... Ron Griffiths, the CIO of Home Depot who despised Microsoft quit. a new CEO came in, and the CIO up and quit cuz he didnt wanna stick around under the new CEO. dont be surprised to see all the wonderful Linux POS and non Microsoft Home Depot stuff get chucked out in favor of Microsoft deals and software.
Rumor is that there already was a deal with Microsoft to kill off those Linux POS registers.
at which point, you could just hack the register and not need to bother hacking the gift cards...