Basic cocoon app for newbies

Eric de Groot Fri, 05 Apr 2002 10:58:38 -0800

Title: Basic cocoon app for newbies

After struggling for a few days trying to figure cocoon out, this is what I came up with as a basic starter cocoon application. It’s the same basic structure as the cocoon webapp, but only including the required stuff for cocoon-2.0.2.jar ( also, I just took all the jars from lib, you can pick and choose if you only use certain components.. ). This is an ant project, so if you don’t use ant... everything in /src will go to /tomcat/webapps/myapp.cocoon/WEB-INF/classes, everything in /web will go to /tomcat/webapps/myapp.cocoon/, etc.. Read below for a few details on the conf files.

myapp.cocoon/
myapp.cocoon/build.xml
myapp.cocoon/docs
myapp.cocoon/src
myapp.cocoon/src/CatalogManager.properties
myapp.cocoon/web
myapp.cocoon/web/sitemap.xmap
myapp.cocoon/web/stylesheets
myapp.cocoon/web/stylesheets/system
myapp.cocoon/web/stylesheets/system/directory2html.xsl
myapp.cocoon/web/stylesheets/system/error2html.xsl
myapp.cocoon/web/stylesheets/system/profile2html.xsl
myapp.cocoon/web/stylesheets/system/status2html.xsl
myapp.cocoon/web/test.html
myapp.cocoon/web/test.xml
myapp.cocoon/web/test.xsl
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/cocoon.xconf
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/avalon-excalibur-4.1.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/avalon-excalibur-scratchpad-20020212.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/avalon-framework-4.1.2.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/batik-all-1.5b1.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/bsf-2.2.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/castor-0.9.3.9-xml.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/cocoon-2.0.2.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/cocoon-scratchpad.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/commons-collections-1.0.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/commons-httpclient-20011012.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/commons-JXPath-20020320.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/commons-logging-1.0.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/deli-0.50.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/fop-0.20.3rc.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/hsqldb-1.61.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/jakarta-poi-1.5-dev-20020315.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/jakarta-regexp-1.2.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/jena-1.3.0.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/jimi-1.0.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/jisp_1_0_2.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/jstyle.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/jtidy-04aug2000r7-dev.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/logkit-1.0.1.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/lucene-1.2-rc2.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/maybeupload_1-0-5pre3.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/pizza-1.1.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/rdffilter.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/resolver-20020130.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/rhino-1.5r3.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/velocity-1.2.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/xalan-2.3.1.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/xercesImpl-2.0.0.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/xml-apis.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/xmldb-api-20011111.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/lib/xt-19991105.jar
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/logkit.xconf
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/logs
myapp.cocoon/web/WEB-INF/web.xml

CatalogManager.properties: No changes made, just steal it from an expanded cocoon.war.

sitemap.xmap: Removed all the sun example junk. Removed all views, resources, action-sets and pipelines. Left everything in components as was. Added my own test pipeline so the bottom of my sitemap looks like:

...
</map:components>



<map:views/>



<map:resources/>



<map:action-sets/>



<map:pipelines>
  <map:pipeline>
    <map:match pattern="">
      <map:read mime-type="text/html" src=""test.html"/>     </map:match>

    <map:match pattern="test">
     <map:generate src=""test.xml"/>      <map:transform src=""test.xsl"/>      <map:serialize/>
    </map:match>
  </map:pipeline>
</map:pipelines>

</map:sitemap>

cocoon.xconf: Removed all the sun example junk. Removed all the hsqldb (used by the examples) stuff.

logkit.xconf: Left as it was in cocoon.war.

web.xml: Left basically as it was in cocoon.war, you just have to make sure your cocoon stuff gets routed through the Cocoon2 servlet (which is in cocoon-2.02.jar), and everything you can route to your own servlets and jsps.

Deploy all that to tomcat and you should be in business.

It would be nice there were 2 cocoon distributions, a bare bones “I mean business” version as a base for deploying new and existing applications, and a “Cocoon 2? Yeah, that movie sucked, the first one was way better” full of examples version for the newbie. The examples, once you don’t need them, infect the directory structure and all the conf files like a disease. It takes a lot of work to remove it all.

-Eric de Groot
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Basic cocoon app for newbies

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