Being able to type pipeline output is certainly a good idea. I have the existing documentation as an eclipse project and there is litte doubt that I will have a couple of interesting articles to write after my first experience of application writing. OK, shall I make a request to apache.org?
Cheers, Jos On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 10:10 +0100, Reinhard Pötz wrote: > Jos Snellings wrote: > > With pleasure. > > By the way, I am starting to write a prototype for an application with > > the latest version. Yes, I am willing to take due changes in available > > classes. > > Here's a question: > > - will there be an alpha-3 phase? > > Yes. Although I consider the code as rather stable, we need more > community involvement (your mails are very helpful by the way!) before > we are ready to move on. > > The only technical issue is that I want to rework the pipeline API once > again in order to support typed results. Currently a pipeline always > writes into an OutputStream and if you need something else (e.g. a > SAXBuffer, a business object, etc.) you have to work around by producing > some side effect. > > > - can you use some help in assembling the last nuts and bolts? > > Yes, that is very appreciated! It would be great if you had a look into > the existing documentation or if you could event help with writing > additional one. > > > I am really pleased with the direction cocoon-3 took. It would be nice > > to have 3.0.0 out early 2009. > > I plan to create the release artifacts for alpha-2 by the end of the month. >
