olegkon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am returning to Cocoon development after 3 yrs in Java/Flex world,
> so please bare with me (many of my assumptions might be old and
> wrong).
> 
> What IDEs do people use to develop in Cocoon ?

Emacs XSLIDE mode. But I'm dealing with traditional text documents, not 
forms (yet...on the cards once I grok how they work :-)

///Peter

> Any XML plugins ?
> 
> Need to develop Cocoon Forms based tool
> to allow non-technical users easily build/customize Forms.
> So there is a predefined set of fields [which only admin can edit],
> which correspond to some database tables/columns.
> User should be able (through the GUI) basically draw/customize that
> form including layout
> and save it in files (XML based) .
> Later on these forms are plugged into some JSP based system
> to create a web application.
> 
> Allow users to define & style fields that will appear on the form.
> Allow users to define validation rules for fields on the form.
> Render user-defined forms
> Capture data from user-defined forms, validate it and post it to the
> Host.
> 
> Any idea if such tool already exists ?
> We would rather buy it than developing it.
> 
> Currently users are using XMLSpy + Authentic,
> but that is VB solution we are moving to Java.
> 
> Any ideas how to implement it?
> Building blocks ? (prefer not to build it from scratch)
> 
> TIA,
> Oleg.