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| <div id="contentBody"><div id="bodyText"><h1 class="docTitle">Apache Cocoon 2.2-RC2 Released</h1><pre>Apache Cocoon 2.2-RC2 Released |
| |
| The Apache Cocoon Community is proud to announce the second release |
| candidate of Cocoon 2.2. |
| |
| Apache Cocoon is a Spring-based framework (since version 2.2) built |
| around the concepts of separation of concerns and component-based development. |
| |
| Cocoon implements these concepts around the notion of component pipelines, |
| each component on the pipeline specializing on a particular operation. |
| |
| Cocoon 2.2 introduces blocks. A block is the unit of modularization |
| in Cocoon (in comparison: Eclipse uses the term plugins, OSGi uses bundles). |
| Everything that goes beyond what Cocoon provides in its core modules |
| (Spring integration, sitemap and pipeline implementation) is provided as |
| block (see below). Custom Cocoon applications are also developed as blocks. |
| A block can provide the following features: |
| |
| * general servlet services (any servlet can be managed by the Cocoon |
| servlet-service framework), |
| * special services that provide pipelines as services, |
| * component services (Spring beans, Avalon services/components), |
| * a container for classes and resources. |
| |
| A block is packaged as a Java archive (jar) following certain conventions |
| concerning the directory structure. |
| |
| Find information about the new features at |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/1420_1_1.html. |
| |
| For more information about Apache Cocoon 2.2, please go to |
| http://cocoon.apache.org or follow our getting started guide at |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/1159_1_1.html. |
| |
| The release artifacts are available from the central Maven repository |
| (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/). |
| |
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| - o - |
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| |
| Additionally we also want to announce some more releases: |
| |
| SUBPROJECTS |
| ----------- |
| |
| * Cocoon Servlet-Service Framework 1.0.0-RC1 |
| The Servlet Service Famework makes it easy to use servlets as components |
| which can communicate with each other. The current implementation is based on |
| Spring 2.0. There are no dependencies on Cocoon core libraries at all. |
| |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/subprojects/servlet-service/servlet-service-impl/ |
| |
| * Cocoon Configuration 1.0.1 |
| The Cocoon Configuration subproject provides basic support for configuring |
| web applications. Its current implementation, the Spring Configurator, is a |
| useful component providing support in common configuration issues when using the |
| Spring framework. There are no dependencies on Cocoon core libraries at all. |
| |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/subprojects/configuration/ |
| |
| BLOCKS |
| ------ |
| |
| * Cocoon Ajax 1.0.0-RC1 |
| Partial page and form reloads |
| |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/ajax/1.0/ |
| |
| * Cocoon Apples 1.0.0-RC2 |
| Pure Java implementations of controller logic. |
| |
| * Cocoon Auth 1.0.0-RC2 |
| Authentication and authorization of pipelines and control-flow based |
| Cocoon applications. |
| |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/auth/1.0/ |
| |
| * Cocoon Batik 1.0.0-RC2 |
| Create Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) using Cocoon pipelines. |
| |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/batik/1.0/ |
| |
| * Cocoon Captcha 1.0.0-RC2 |
| A reader to create CAPTCHAs |
| |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/captcha/1.0/ |
| |
| * Cocoon Database 1.0.0-RC2 |
| Direct usage of relational databases with sitemap components. |
| |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/databases/1.0/ |
| |
| * Cocoon Flowscript 1.0.0-RC2 |
| Flowscript is a continuation-based implementation of Cocoon control |
| flow based on Rhino (Javascript/ECMAScript). |
| |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/flowscript/1.0/ |
| |
| * Cocoon FOP 1.0.0-RC2 |
| Use Apache FOP, an XSL-FO driven print formatter to render pages to |
| PDF or Postscript. |
| |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/fop/1.0/ |
| |
| * Cocoon Forms 1.0.0-RC1 |
| Cocoon has an advanced forms framework. Together with Flow and JXTemplates, |
| Cocoon Forms (or CForms) provides a solid basis for building interactive |
| web applications. Cocoon Forms handles complex use cases while still being |
| simple enough to be used by non-Java-programmers who want to add forms to |
| their site. |
| |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/ajax/1.0/ |
| |
| * Cocoon Hsqldb-Client 1.0.0-RC2 |
| JDBC access of a Hsql database |
| |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/hsqldb-client/1.0/ |
| |
| * Cocoon Hsqldb-Server 1.0.0-RC2 |
| Start a Hsql database server as part of your Cocoon application. |
| |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/hsqldb-server/1.0/ |
| |
| * Cocoon HTML 1.0.0-RC2 |
| Generators to deal with HTML. |
| |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/html/1.0/ |
| |
| * Cocoon Linkrewriter 1.0.0-RC2 |
| Transformers to rewrite all elements containing links. |
| |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/linkrewriter/1.0/ |
| |
| * Cocoon Mail 1.0.0-RC2 |
| Sitemap components to send emails. |
| |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/mail/1.0/ |
| |
| * Cocoon Template 1.0.0-RC2 |
| XML-based templating |
| |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/template/1.0/ |
| |
| TOOLS |
| ----- |
| |
| * Cocoon Maven plugin 1.0.0-M1 |
| The Cocoon Maven plugin contains several goals that make the life of software |
| developers easier, e.g. support for running blocks as webapps or support for |
| patching the web.xml at deployment time. |
| |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/maven-plugins/maven-plugin/1.0/ |
| |
| * Cocoon Block Archetype 1.0.0-RC2 |
| This archetype creates a Cocoon block that comes with some small samples. |
| |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/maven-plugins/ |
| |
| * Cocoon Plain-Block Archetype 1.0.0-RC2 |
| Use this archetype to create the simplest possible Cocoon block. |
| |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/maven-plugins/ |
| |
| * Cocoon Webapp Archetype 1.0.0-RC2 |
| Use this archetype to create a web application that is configured to host Cocoon blocks. |
| |
| http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/maven-plugins/ |
| |
| The Apache Cocoon Project |
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