Apache Cocoon 2.0.3 Released
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The Apache Cocoon team is proud to announce the new release
of Apache Cocoon.
Apache Cocoon is an XML framework that raises the usage of
XML and XSLT technologies for server applications to a new level.
Designed for performance and scalability around pipelined SAX
processing, Cocoon offers a flexible environment based on the
separation of concerns between content, logic and style.
A centralized configuration system and sophisticated caching
top this all off and help you to create, deploy and maintain
rock-solid XML server applications.
Today, most web engineers consider XML as the key for an improved
web model and web site managers see XML as a way to reduce costs
and ease production. In an era where services rather than software
will be key for economic success, a better and less expensive model
for web publishing will be a winner, especially one based on open
standards.
This release of Cocoon is a maintainance release focusing on
improved performance, robustness and better documentation. See the
following changes list for more information.
For more information about Apache Cocoon 2.0.3, please go to
http://xml.apache.org/cocoon
Changes with Apache Cocoon 2.0.3
*) When Cocoon is built, the build system automatically detects the current
jvm and builds a target for this virtual machine. This is eiter JVM 1.4
or JVM 1.2 upto 1.3. [CZ]
*) Fixed current page indication in documentation menu (synced with
HEAD). [KP]
*) Internationalization and JSP samples are refactored. [KP]
*) When building Cocoon it is required to set the targetted JVM (either
1.3 (means 1.3 or lower) or1.4. [CZ]
*) Fix NullPointerException in Notifier. [VG]
*) Multiple results seem not to be supported by some DBMSs (i.e. Oracle
and Informix). Therefore this is made optional in ESQL. A new parameter
(esql:allow-multiple-results) to esql:connection re-enables it.
See EsqlConnection for details. [CH]
*) Properly escape (national) characters included in element's attributes
in XSP page. [VG]
*) Addconnect-attempts and connect-waittime parameters to the
SQLTransformer.
Transformer tries toget a connection to the DB several times before
returning
anerror. [VG]
*) Fix sitemap compilation error when matchers areused within view or
resource. [VG]
*) Fix sitemap compilation error when actions are used within view. [VG]
*) TraxTransformer and XSLTProcessor components now correctly handle
dependecies on imported (via xsl:include)XSLT stylesheets. [VG]
*) Removed Java 1.3+ only method (URL.getPath()) from
LinkStatusGenerator. [NKB]
*) CocoonServletno longer builds its own classloader. Also, it no more sets
the thread's context classloaderunless the "init-classloader" parameter is
true.
To have Cocoon use its own classloader, usethe ParanoidCocoonServlet. [SW]
*) ResourceReader incorrectly advertised byte ranges support. [VG]
*) Added a "handle-exceptions" init argument in web.xml, used by
CocoonServlet for the exceptions that the core Cocoon class throws. If
true
or not set, this class will try to catch and handle all Cocoon
exceptions.
If false, it will rethrow them to the servlet container. [NKB]
*) Changed the Notifier notify() methods to accept amimetype instead of
returning it. There is no way in which this method could understand what
mime/type to use from the notification info and the stream. It was added
to the methodusing a ContentHandler, since it could output svg for
example.
The old methods were deprecated. [NKB]
*) Fixed error reporting in CocoonServlet: stream is now closed at the end
of
the service method, the content-type is sent before sending the error and
the notification messages are now more descriptive. [NKB]
*) Support Parameterizable URLFactories. [VG]
*) Fixed multipart request problems with IE6. [GF]
*) Added ability to run Cocoon on Novell OS. [VG]
*) Make the multipart/form-dataparser aware of the encoding used by the
processed request. [SM]
*) Added support for StreamGenerator to read from 'multipart/form-data'
as well. [SM]
*) Started new documents for Documentation To Do List and Documentation
History
of Changes. [DC]
*) Fixed NPE in DefaultNotifyingBuilder. [GF]
*) Fixed NPE in I18nTransformer. [GF]
*) i18n transformer changed to useshorter syntax for number formatting. Now
'type' attribute with'number', 'currency' and 'percent' should be used
instead
of 'type' and 'sub-type'combination. [KP]
*) New documents on databases and Cocoon, database actions and modules. [CH]
*) Additional input modules: Date, Digest, ConstantString, Random,
NullInput,
Collection [CH]
*) Sendmail logicsheet works again. [CH]
*) Array support for original form validation and new constraint for
strings:
"one-of" listsall allowed values, separated by "|"s. List should start
and end with "|". [CH]
*) Aliases in modular database actions now work correctly. All of them
return
the number of affected rows as sitemap variable. [CH]
*) added new Selector component. [GF]
*) Updated commons-httpclient. [GF]
*) Fixing bug in NetUtils that altered in some cases the link reference in
command-line mode. [CZ]
*) XScript worksnow (and all XScript SOAP samples). [VG]
*) XSP engine now correctly processes pages with anyencoding. [VG]
*) Fixed error(NPE) in AbstractValidatorAction introduced in the 2.0.2. [VG]
*) Fixing ClassCastException when a multipart/form-data form is posted. [CZ]
*) Rewrote SQLTransformer and added capability to store/fetch XML. [CZ]
*) Added AbstractSAXTransformer for much easier implementation of custom
transformers. [CZ]
*) Handle request forwarding (aka internal redirects) using the "cocoon:"
pseudo-protocol : writing <map:redirect-to uri="cocoon:/foo.bar"/> makes
a recursive
call on the current sitemap without going back to the browser (as usual,
"cocoon://foo.bar" uses the root sitemap). Thisalso keeps any data that
have been stored as request attributes. Note: this is only available in
the interpreted sitemap engine for now, and will come soon on the
compiled engine. [SW]
*) Small optimization to XConfTool to check if the fileis actually an
XConfTool file. [NKB]
*) Added LinkStatusGenerator donated by Michael Homeijer and accompanying
sample
sitemap to scratchpad. [NKB]
*) Moved castor scratchpad sample from /samples to /mount as othersamples.
Now the
refactoredsample page points to the mountdir, thus showing
availablescratchpad
components to test. [NKB]
*) When including the scratchpad libs in the build, all the scratchpad
samples
are copied too. [NKB]
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