Hi Peter, I have been using Cocoon 2.12 (or the 2.13 dev brach) for xslt2 transformation work, and agree with Warrell and Christopher -- you do NOT need to move to 2.2 or 3.0.
Java 8 works with it, but you may need earlier Java versions to build it (YMMV). If you want to lighten your production environment, you can easily remove unused blocks by duplicating the blocks.properties to local.blocks.properties, then uncommenting the lines you don't need to, for example: include.block.bsf=false. You can also tweak the build.properties file in the same way, using local.build.properties, and put any extra libs in lib > local (these aren't checked by the jar-checking system, and will be copied over to your final build or war). Make sure ANT_HOME is in your classpath, then ./build.sh to build. You'll notice that the latest cocoon-2.12.x/2.13 dev includes fop-1.0.jar, in case you want to use it instead of XeLaTeX. Dan insigh...@gmail.com On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 7:17 AM, Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > Peter, > > On 1/6/16 6:33 AM, Flynn, Peter wrote: > > ...I think. > > > > I have an existing Cocoon service running 2.1.11 under Tomcat5 and > > Apache in CentOS5 on a very old server, and I now have a new server > > running CentOS6, Apache2, and Tomcat6 that I want to migrate to, but I > > am held up by my lack of understanding of what has been happening to > > Coocon, and I'm an XML person, not a Java person :-) > > > > The existing service is not an "application" in the normal sense: it's > > just a large collection of directories under /var/www/xml, each with its > > own sitemap.xmap, serving a lot of XML documents as HTML via XSLT. Many > > of the documents are in fact HTML, retrieved in real time from elsewhere > > in our site using Tidy in order to force xhtml or HTML5. The cocoon.war > > is the stock 2.1.11 with no mods except the substitution of saxon9.jar > > so we can use XSLT2. > > > > I would like to be able to update all this to 2.2, and eventually to > > Cocoon 3.0, but the lack of a prebuilt .war file means I am at a loss as > > to how to do this. The existing service simply serves XML converted with > > XSLT2, nothing more: there are no requirements for authentication (it's > > all public), templates, forms, or FOP (we use XSLT2 and XeLaTeX for > > PDFs), and no "applications" as such. The stock 2.1.11 cocoon.war file > > undoubtedly includes vast amounts of stuff we never even go near using, > > but I have no idea what to exclude or include when it comes to building > > a new one in 2.2 or 3.0. The block examples in the 2.2 Tutorials > > *appear* to be vastly more complex than is needed for what we want to do > > (although this may just be my ignorance: in fact Cocoon 1.x always did > > everything we needed!). > > > > A further requirement is obviously robust and working versions of Ant or > > Maven, as in the past I have never been able to get either of these to > > work on the platform available (there have always been unresolvable > > dependencies for libraries simply unavailable). Has anyone ever > > implemented Cocoon 2.2 or 3 on CentOS6? > > > > I have a small budget for help with this, either for training or > > consultancy or both (preferably both so that I can learn). Or do I just > > pick up the current 2.1.11 cocoon.war file and drop it into the new > > system and leave it alone? > > Moving from Tomcat 5 on (presumably) an older Java to a newer version > should not be difficult at all. Is there a reason to move to Tomcat 6 > and not all the way up to Tomcat 8? Tomcat 6 will be EOL very soon.[1] > > If you are going to migrate, you may as well go all the way. > > My experience with a Cocoon-only deployment on Tomcat 5 moving all the > way up to Tomcat 8 (I went version by version and wasted a whole lot of > time doing so) was basically just drop the WAR file I already had into > Tomcat's deployment directory and everything worked exactly as expected. > (This included incremental upgrades from Java 1.5 to Java 1.8 as well). > > I have a relatively simple Cocoon deployment with only a few dozen > matchers in my pipeline, and two or three separate sitemaps. I also have > a custom RequestParameterModule, but of course that wouldn't be > sensitive to a Tomcat upgrade. > > My advice would be to put the latest Java and the latest Tomcat on a > test server and drop your existing application's WAR in there and test > everything. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how painless it is. > > As for Cocoon upgrade suggestions, others have made those already in > this thread. Honestly, if it were me, I'd upgrade Java/Tomcat first and > make sure everything works, and then focus on upgrading Cocoon. > > -chris > > [1] http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-60-eol.html > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org > > -- -- The information transmitted is confidential and proprietary.
