Congratulations to everyone involved making this big milestone in Cocoon's history reality and thanks to Reinhard for doing the release!
Andreas On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Reinhard Pötz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Apache Cocoon Community is proud to announce the release of > Cocoon 2.2.0. > > Apache Cocoon is a Spring-based framework (since version 2.2 of > Cocoon) built around the concepts of separation of concerns and > component-based development. > > Cocoon implements these concepts around the notion of component > pipelines, each component on the pipeline specializing on a particular > operation. > > Cocoon 2.2 introduces the idea of blocks. A block is the unit of > modularization in Cocoon, allowing the framework to be built upon. (in > comparison: Eclipse uses the term plugins, OSGi uses bundles). > Everything that goes beyond what Cocoon provides in its core modules > (Spring integration, sitemap and pipeline implementation) is provided > as block (see below). Custom Cocoon applications are also developed as > blocks. A block can provide the following additional features: > > * general servlet services (any servlet can be managed by the Cocoon > servlet-service framework), > * special services that provide pipelines as services, > * component services (Spring beans, Avalon services/components), > * a container for classes and resources. > > A block is packaged as a Java archive (jar) following certain > conventions concerning the directory structure. > > To read more information about the new features within Cocoon 2.2.0 > please go to: http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/1420_1_1.html. > > Alternatively for more information about Apache Cocoon 2.2, > please go to, please go to http://cocoon.apache.org or follow our > getting started guide at http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/1159_1_1.html. > > The release artifacts are available from the central Maven repository > (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/) or you can download them from the > distribution area (http://cocoon.apache.org/1284_1_1.html). > > > - o - > > > Additionally we are pround to announce some additional releases: > > SUBPROJECTS > ----------- > > * Cocoon Servlet-Service Framework 1.0.0 > The Servlet Service Famework makes it easy to use servlets as > components which can communicate with each other. The current > implementation is based on Spring 2.5. > > There are no dependencies on Cocoon core libraries at all. > > http://cocoon.apache.org/subprojects/servlet-service/1.0/ > > * Cocoon Configuration 1.0.2 > The Cocoon Configuration subproject provides basic support for > configuring web applications. Its current implementation, the Spring > Configurator, is a useful component providing support in common > configuration issues when using the Spring framework. > > There are no dependencies on Cocoon core libraries at all. > > http://cocoon.apache.org/subprojects/configuration/1.0/ > > Additional Cocoon 2.2.0 BLOCKS > ------------------------------ > > * Cocoon Ajax 1.0.0 > Partial page and form reloads > > http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/ajax/1.0/ > > * Cocoon Apples 1.0.0 > Pure Java implementations of controller logic. > > * Cocoon Auth 1.0.0 > Authentication and authorization of pipelines and control-flow based > Cocoon applications. > > http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/auth/1.0/ > > * Cocoon Batik 1.0.0 > Create Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) using Cocoon pipelines. > > http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/batik/1.0/ > > * Cocoon Captcha 1.0.0 > A reader to create CAPTCHAs > > http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/captcha/1.0/ > > * Cocoon Database 1.0.0 > Direct usage of relational databases with sitemap components. > > http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/databases/1.0/ > > * Cocoon Database Bridge 1.0.0 > Databases bridge allows you to use datasources defined as > Spring-beans in Avalon components. > > http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/databases-bridge/1.0/ > > * Cocoon Flowscript 1.0.0 > Flowscript is a continuation-based implementation of Cocoon control > flow based on Rhino (Javascript/ECMAScript). > > http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/flowscript/1.0/ > > * Cocoon FOP 1.0.0 > Use Apache FOP, an XSL-FO driven print formatter to render pages to > PDF or Postscript. > > http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/fop/1.0/ > > * Cocoon Forms 1.1.0 > Cocoon has an advanced forms framework. Together with Flow and > JXTemplates, Cocoon Forms (or CForms) provides a solid basis for > building interactive web applications. Cocoon Forms handles complex > use cases while still being simple enough to be used by > non-Java-programmers who want to add forms to their site. > > http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/ajax/1.0/ > > * Cocoon Hsqldb-Client 1.0.0 > JDBC access of a Hsql database > > http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/hsqldb-client/1.0/ > > * Cocoon Hsqldb-Server 1.0.0 > Start a Hsql database server as part of your Cocoon application. > > http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/hsqldb-server/1.0/ > > * Cocoon HTML 1.0.0 > Generators to deal with HTML. > > http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/html/1.0/ > > * Cocoon Linkrewriter 1.0.0 > Transformers to rewrite all elements containing links. > > http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/linkrewriter/1.0/ > > * Cocoon Mail 1.0.0 > Sitemap components to send emails. > > http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/mail/1.0/ > > * Cocoon Template 1.1.0 > XML-based templating > > http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/blocks/template/1.0/ > > TOOLS > ----- > > * Cocoon Maven plugin 1.0.0-M2 > The Cocoon Maven plugin contains several goals that make the life of > software developers easier, e.g. support for running blocks as > webapps or support for patching the web.xml at deployment time. > > http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/maven-plugins/maven-plugin/1.0/ > > * Cocoon Block Archetype 1.0.0 > This archetype creates a Cocoon block that comes with some > small samples. > > http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/maven-plugins/ > > * Cocoon Plain-Block Archetype 1.0.0 > Use this archetype to create the simplest possible Cocoon block. > > http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/maven-plugins/ > > * Cocoon Webapp Archetype 1.0.0 > Use this archetype to create a web application that is configured to > host Cocoon blocks. > > http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/maven-plugins/ > > The Apache Cocoon Project > > -- > Reinhard Pötz Managing Director, {Indoqa} GmbH > http://www.indoqa.com/en/people/reinhard.poetz/ > > Member of the Apache Software Foundation > Apache Cocoon Committer, PMC member, PMC Chair [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ________________________________________________________________________ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
