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| <h1>News</h1> |
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| XMLForm and JXForms have been removed from the 2.1.x distribution. |
| Please use the well established Cocoon Forms (former Woody) framework. |
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| <h1>What is Cocoon?</h1> |
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| Apache Cocoon is a web development framework built around the concepts of |
| separation of concerns (making sure people can interact and collaborate on a |
| project, without stepping on each other toes) and component-based web |
| development. |
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| Cocoon implements these concepts around the notion of "component pipelines", |
| each component on the pipeline specializing on a particular operation. This |
| makes it possible to use a "building block" approach for web solutions, |
| hooking together components into pipelines without any required programming. |
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| Cocoon is "<em>web glue for your web application development needs</em>". It |
| is a glue that keeps concerns separate and allows parallel evolution of the |
| two sides, improving development pace and reducing the chance of conflicts. |
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| Cocoon has been designed to coexist and interoperate side-by-side with your |
| existing J2EE solutions or to give them new functionality without requiring |
| any change in the existing infrastructure. |
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| Cocoon interacts with many data sources, including filesystems, RDBMS, |
| LDAP, native XML databases, SAP® systems and network-based data sources. |
| It adapts content delivery to the capabilities of different devices like HTML, WML, |
| PDF, SVG, and RTF, to name just a few. You can run Cocoon as a Servlet as well as |
| through a powerful, commandline interface. The deliberate design of its abstract |
| environment gives you the freedom to extend its functionality to meet your |
| special needs in a highly modular fashion. |
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| <h1>Cocoon Features</h1> |
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| You want to get an overview of all available features of Cocoon in 5 minutes? |
| Read the <a href="features.html">features list</a>! |
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| <h1>Where can I find it?</h1> |
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| To download the latest release @released.version@ of Apache Cocoon, go to the |
| <a class="external" href="http://cocoon.apache.org/mirror.cgi">download area.</a> |
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| If you are looking for a past generation of Cocoon (no longer supported but still available), |
| go to the <a class="external" href="http://cocoon.apache.org/1.x/">Cocoon 1.x area</a>. |
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| <h1>Where to start?</h1> |
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| With a large serving of core components and more than 45 additional "blocks", this has |
| become a big project and it is often hard for newcomers to find their way through the |
| (wonderful) world of Cocoon. |
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| To make it easier, we have started to create <a href="./tracks/index.html">documentation tracks</a> |
| to help you locate the parts of the documentation that are the most relevant for your needs. |
| There are few tracks at the moment, but we hope to create more of them depending |
| on the feedback and help that we can get. |
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| <h1>More News about Cocoon</h1> |
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| Check out our <a class="external" href="http://cocoon.apache.org/news/">news page</a> for more up-to-date news about Cocoon. |
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