Great work, Carsten. Congratulations.
Giacomo On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > Apache Cocoon 2.0.4 Released > ---------------------------- > > 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 and robustness. In addition some bugs were > fixed and new features were added. See the following changes list > for more information. > > > > For more information about Apache Cocoon 2.0.4, please go to > http://xml.apache.org/cocoon > > Changes with Apache Cocoon 2.0.4 > > *) The HTMLGenerator now accepts a JTidy configuration file for fine-grained > control on the generated document. [SW] > > *) New Logicsheet for use with InputModules. [CH] > > *) xsp.xsl now includes all xsp:init-page tags. Additional xsp:exit-page tag > for cleanup operations. [CH] > > *) New InputModule to map parameter names to / from another name. Uses > translation table and additional prefix / suffix. [CH] > > *) Fixed SimpleFormTransformer: Malformed XML with textarea elements. [CH] > > *) Allow to set the i18n transformer's locale from the sitemap as a > parameter (ported from 2.1-dev). The old behavior, based on LocaleAction is > preserved only for 2.0.x versions and will be removed from the further > releases (2.1 and higher). [KP] > > *) New build target "validate-config" to conduct build-time validation of > some core important configuration files using RELAX NG (call it manually > with: ./build.sh validate-config). Currently doing: all sitemap.xmap, all > cocoon.roles, all *.xsl stylesheets, all book.xml files. [DC] > > *) Extend the syntax of sitemap variable substitution : variables can have a > prefix which indicates an InputModule where to get the value from. For > example, the expression "{request-param:foo}" will evaluate to the value of > the "foo" request parameter (provided of course that the "request-param" > InputModule is correctly defined in cocoon.xconf). [SW] > > *) RequestLifecycleComponents were not handled properly when the cocoon: > protocol is used [CZ] > > *) Changed SimpleFormTransformer to use InputModules. [CH] > > *) Changed InputModules to return Iterator instead of Enumeration. New > abstract "meta" module to make new meta modules easier. Stripped "meta" from > defaults module. Added JXPathMetaModule. Added extension classes and > packages to all modules that are based on JXPath. [CH] > > *) Improved support for CLOB and BLOB columns in modular database actions. > [CH] > > *) New chaining InputModule that allows to use additional modules when an > attribute is not present or null. [CH] > > *) Changed defaults of InputModule names in many places to new names. [CH] > > *) Fixing namespace handling of SQLTransformer. [CZ] > > *) New ZipArchiveSerializer to build zip files aggregating various sources > as archive entries. Can be used to generate zip files, sxw files > (OpenOffice), jar files, etc. [SW] > > *) TraxTransformer does not have use-deli parameter anymore. If deli is > configured in the cocoon.xconf, it always will be used. [VG] > > *) CocoonServlet upload behavior now configurable from the web.xml. > Configuration parameters are: autosave-uploads, overwrite-uploads, > upload-max-size. See web.xml for description. [VG] > > *) Remove the static factory variable in RequestFactory, and instead pass it > to the HttpRequest via the environment. [VG] > > *) ReadDOMSessionTransformer now can work with any types of object (same > mechanism as in <xsp:expr> now used). Configuration parameter dom-name > renamed to attribute-name. [VG] > > *) Src attribute can be used now with SessionAttributeGenerator to specify > session attribute name. Old syntax preserved. [VG] > > *) Local parameters in SessionStateAction still do override global > parameters, but do NOT change global parameters. [VG] > > *) Src attribute can be used now with ResourceExistsAction. Old parameter > syntax preserved. [VG] > > *) Fixed prefix mapping for the sql transformer. [CZ] > > *) FOP user configuration can now be specified as URL or relative path as > the value of the <user-config> element. [VG] > > *) Load default FOP configuration only once, do not overwrite any user > configuration. [VG] > > *) Remove unnessesary code in SVGBuilder. This also fixes intermittent > ClassCastExceptions in Batik code. [VG] > > *) Fix issue with cross-platform uploads. Uploaded file's name converted to > match destination platform's path separator. [VG] > > *) Absolute path now can be specified for work, cache, and upload directory. > Read comments in web.xml, and verify your settings. [VG] > > *) Set URI resolver for XSLT handler every time time templates are used, > because XSLT templates might reference disposed instance of XSLT processor. > Fixes some NPEs in XSLT processor when templates cache is used. [VG] > > *) Fix sitemap reloading bug: When parent sitemap is modified, it is > recompiled and reloaded. All sub-sitemaps of this sitemap also has to be > reloaded because they have references to the parent sitemap's > ComponentSelectors. This bug is the cause of some NPEs in the XSLT > processor. [VG] > > *) Improve backward compatibility: FilePartFile needs toString() method to > work with code written for Cocoon 2.0. [VG] > > *) AbstractServerPages used static fields for dependency tracking, which > caused either non-modified XSPs to be recompiled, or modified XSPs not to be > recompiled. [SW] > > *) SearchGenerator now includes <field name=""/> elements into <hit/> > element. These elements contain stored fields of a found Document, making it > possible to provide additional info about document in the search result list > (only when index created with some stored fields). [VG] > > *) In addition to attributes in same namespace with elements, link > serializer reacts on non-namespaced attributes too. This allows processing > of (strict) XHTML. [VG] > > *) Backport usage of InputModules to compiled sitemap. [CH] > > *) Sync modules and related components with HEAD. [CH] > > *) Added some more types understood by modular database actions. [CH] > > *) Request logicsheet: Fix session tags. [CH] > > *) Added some more InputModules. [CH] > > *) Changed existing OutputModules to not use ":" to separate key prefix from > suffix if prefix is an empty string. [CH] > > *) Simple Formvalidation: FormValidatorAction sets attribute "*" to indicate > overall validation status. Added SimpleFormTransformer that fills XHTML form > fields with values from request parameters and allows conditional error tags > depending on validation result. This removes the requirement for XSP. > Changed ordering of error levels: "notpresent" (indicates that no validation > result is present for this parameter) moves between "ok" and "error". New > error level "maxerror" used in conjunction with the transformer, is never > set, used as upper bound. [CH] > > *) (Modular) DatabaseActions: select produced wrong result if no rows were > found, query action returned broken result. [CH] > > *) ESQL: Allow arbitrary types for prepared and callable statements via > dynamically loading classes like the SQLTransformer does. Is-null now uses > dynamic colum specification. Fixed skip-row feature, which was off by one. > Added tag to get connection meta data. [CH] > > *) Fixed NPE in the recycling phase of content aggregation. [CZ] > > *) Fixed bug in cocoon pseudo protocol involving aggregation of aggregated > resources spanning several sitemaps. [VG] > > *) Conect to the XML:DB once, from the XMLDBSourceFactory. [VG] > > *) <xsp-util:include-expr/> includes any object, converting it to string. > [VG] > > *) XSP now verifies that value of attribute name on xsp:element does not > contains ':'. To create namespaced elements, uri and prefix attributes must > be used. [VG] > > *) Request, response, and session logicsheet were incorrectly returning > result when as="xml" is specified. [VG] > > *) XScript now has better variable management: variables of request, > session, global, and page scope are stored not in the XScriptManager, but as > request, session, context attributes, or as XSP page field (respectively). > Chances of memory leaks are highly reduced. [VG] > > *) Include all warnings and errors reported by the XSLT engine into the > TransformerException if transformation fails or terminated by the > stylesheet. [VG] > > *) Update HSQLDB to version 1.7.0. Now it properly shuts down with Cocoon. > [VG] > > *) All log messages from FOP now go into the logs instead of printing them > to the screen. [CZ] > > *) Applied patch for MaybeUploadRequestFactoryImpl which sets the timeout > for a session to infinite during an upload and restores it afterwards. [CZ] > > > The Cocoon Team > Carsten Ziegeler > Open Source Group, S&N AG > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
