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| <p> |
| Depending on who you ask, you might get different answers: Cocoon 2 has become |
| a rather big project, or more precisely a rather big collection of modular |
| components, and as such means different things to different people. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| Today, more than 40 <em>blocks</em> are available to acquire, process and publish |
| XML data, and to build interactive applications based on XML and java technologies. |
| Cocoon does not contain millions of lines of codes, but rather reuses a lot of |
| Open-Source tools and libraries, combining them in a very modular way. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| In the beginning, Cocoon was only a <em>web publishing framework</em>, meant to |
| convert different document types to HTML, PDF and similar formats for publishing. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| Today, and especially with the <em>Cocoon Forms</em> and <em>Flow</em> components |
| that we're going to discuss, Cocoon is becoming a full-blown web applications framework, |
| covering a large set of use cases and targeting different styles of developers. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| By covering the mainstream aspects of Cocoon as it stands at the beginning of 2004, |
| this <em>supersonic tour</em> will help you get a feel of what Cocoon is about, and |
| help you find your way in this big collection of components. |
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| </content> |
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