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| <h1>Cocoon Blocks</h1>
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| <h2>What is a block?</h2>
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| tbw<br>
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| <h2>Core blocks, non-core blocks and external blocks</h2>
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| <p>The main goal of Cocoon blocks is to reduce Cocoon to a core.
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| All functionality that isn't absolutly necessary to run Cocoon,
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| is put into a block. But some of those blocks are needed by the most of
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| our users and therefore they will also be part of a Cocoon
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| distribution. Those blocks (Javaflow, Cocoon Forms, XML-Templating) are
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| calledCore Blocks . (This doesn't mean that core blocks can't be
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| released between Cocoon releases! Core blocks can be compared to the
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| JDT or Ant plug-in of Eclipse which are part of every Eclipse
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| distribution.)<br>
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| All other blocks (Non-Core Blocks) should sooner or later become
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| independant from Cocoon and need to be downloaded and installed
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| separatly. This is a major refactoring and will take time until it is
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| finished. Some of these blocks may become their own projects, some will
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| remain under the umbrella of the Cocoon project and some will move away
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| to other hosts like cocoondev.org or Sourceforge.<br>
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| External blocks have never been part of a Cocoon.</p>
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| <h2>Lifecycle of blocks</h2>
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