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<h1>What is Apache Cocoon?</h1>
--- <p class="fixme">This is our 2.1 definition of Cocoon. I (rpoetz) think
that we
--- need to adapt it to reflect our way towards modulariuzation (blocks), that
we
--- offer continuation based controller and that Cocoon is the best framework
when
--- it comes to XML and the support of multiple output formats.</p>
+++ <p>Apache Cocoon is a <a
href="http://www.springframework.org";>Spring-based</a>
+++ framework built around the concepts of separation of concerns and
+++ component-based development.</p>
--- <p>Apache Cocoon is a web development framework built around the concepts of
--- separation of concerns and component-based web development.</p>
+++ <p>Cocoon implements these concepts around the notion of <strong>component
+++ pipelines</strong>, each component on the pipeline specializing on a
particular
+++ operation. This makes it possible to use a Lego(tm)-like approach in
building
+++ web solutions, hooking together components into pipelines, often without any
+++ required programming.</p>
--- <p>Cocoon implements these concepts around the notion of 'component
pipelines',
--- each component on the pipeline specializing on a particular operation. This
--- makes it possible to use a Lego(tm)-like approach in building web solutions,
--- hooking together components into pipelines without any required
programming.</p>
+++ <p>Cocoon used as web framework is "web glue for your web application
+++ development needs". It is a glue that keeps concerns separate and allows
+++ parallel evolution of all aspects of a web application, improving
development
+++ pace and reducing the chance of conflicts. In particular it makes it easy to
+++ support multiple output formats, offers continuation based web controller
+++ implementations and comes with a JSR-168 compatible Portal
implementation.</p>
--- <p>Cocoon is "web glue for your web application development needs". It is a
glue
--- that keeps concerns separate and allows parallel evolution of all aspects
of a
--- web application, improving development pace and reducing the chance of
--- conflicts.</p>
---
<h1>What are Cocoon blocks?</h1>
<p>A block is the unit of modularization (Eclipse uses the term plugins,
OSGi
bundles) in Cocoon. Everything that goes beyond that what Cocoon provides
in its
--- core is provided as block. Every custom Cocoon application is developed as
--- block. A block <em>can</em> provide following features:</p>
+++ core modules (Spring integration, sitemap and pipeline implementation) is
+++ provided as block. Every custom Cocoon application is developed as block. A
+++ block <em>can</em> provide following features:</p>
<ul>
<li>sitemap services by provide pipelines that can be called by a special
purpose protocol (<tt>block:</tt>) as a special servlet service</li>
--- <li>general servlet services (any servlet can be managed by the Cocoon
blocks
--- framework)</li>
+++ <li>general servlet services (<em>any</em> servlet can be managed by the
Cocoon
+++ blocks framework)</li>
<li>component services (Spring beans, Avalon services/components)</li>
<li>a container for classes and resources</li>
</ul>
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