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Cocoon is an [XML]] publishing framework developed on top of the [Avalon Server Framework.
Separation of Concerns - Making user people can interact and collaborate on a project without getting in each others way.
Cocoon Forms (former Woody) framework
Copy cocoon.properties from cocoon’s root directory to $CATALINA_HOME/conf/
<map:sitemap xmlns:map=”http://apache.org/cocoon/sitemap/1.0”>
<map:pipelines>
<map:pipeline>
<map:match pattern=“*.html”>
<map:generate src=“{1}.xml”/>
<map:transform src=”
The sitemap maps URI space to resources. It consist of components and pipelines. Pipelines are made out of components. All pipelines consist of at least two components; a generaor which produces the content and a serializer which delivers the content. A generator generates SAX events and a serializer turns these events into a byte stream. Each generator has a unique name and is mapped to a java class The logger attribute defines where messages produced by a component should go
Contains settings for all cocoon applications.
XSPs - eXtensivel Server Pages The Cocoon equivalent of a JSP - they contain both content and login and can import functionality via logicsheets cf. taglibs.
The type of loading is found in cocoon.xconf under the reload-method property.
<map:match pattern=”//”>
<map:select type=“resource-exists”>
<map:when test=“cache/{1}/{2}/index.html”>
<map:read mime-type=“test/html” src=“cache/{1}/{2}/index.html”/>
</map:when>
<map:otherwise>
<map:call function=“navcontent”>
<map:parameter name=“siteid” value=“{1}”/>
<map:parameter name=“navid” value=“{2}”/>
<map:parameter name=“contentid” value=“index”/>
</map:call>
</map:otherwise>
</map:select>
</map:match>
http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/flow/jxtemplate.html
We use http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/jexl/|JEXL
http://localhost:8080/cocoon/docs/userdocs/concepts/index.html
http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/howto/howto-html-pdf-publishing.html
http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/DistributingCocoonApplications
http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/tutorial/#Third-Party+Tutorials
http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/tutorial/tutorial-develop-webapp.html
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2002/jw-0920-cocoon.html
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