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Document ID: 1363 Branch: main Language: default Name: Features Document Type: Cocoon Document Created: 5/8/07 9:42:17 AM Creator (owner): Reinhard Pötz State: publish Parts ===== Content ------- Mime type: text/xml Size: 9491 bytes Content: <html> <body> <h1>General information</h1> <ul> <li>Apache Cocoon is a web development framework built around the concepts of component-based web development and separation of concerns, ensuring that people can interact and collaborate on a project without stepping on each other toes. </li> <li>Cocoon implements these concepts around the notion of <strong>component pipelines</strong>, each component on the pipeline specializing in a particular operation (usual pipeline uses a Generator, Transformers and a Serializer). This makes it possible to use a Lego(tm)-like approach in building web solutions, hooking together components into pipelines without requiring programming.</li> <li><strong>Advanced Control Flow</strong>: continuation-based page flow hides the complexity of request/response processing and is cleanly separated from the view and data components.</li> <li>Cocoon is open source software (based on the <a href="daisy:421">Apache Software License</a>).</li> <li>Cocoon does not duplicate efforts but tightly integrates many technologies. </li> <li>Cocoon is in use at many live sites and on many company networks.</li> <li>Cocoon has a strong community, with many active developers and more than <a href="daisy:630">plenty of active committers</a>!</li> <li>There is free support from the thousands of people on our <a href="http://cocoon.apache.org/community/mail-lists.html";>mailing lists</a> and commercial support is available from various companies and consultants. </li> <li>There are many Cocoon sessions at different conferences: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.orixo.com/events/gt2003/";>Cocoon GetTogether</a></li> <li><a href="http://apachecon.com/";>ApacheCon</a></li> <li><a href="http://cocoon.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/";>Austrian Cocoon Day</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.wjax.de/";>WJAX</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.jax2003.de/";>JAX</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>To get started see the <a href="daisy:424">"first steps" documentation track</a>. Basically you only need to <a href="http://cocoon.apache.org/mirror.cgi";>download</a> Cocoon, unpack it and follow the simple INSTALL.txt instructions. A minimal version of the Jetty servlet container is included with Cocoon.</li> </ul> <h1>Usage scenarios</h1> <p>As you would expect, all of these scenarios can be combined.</p> <ul> <li>Dynamic multi-channel web publishing (see below for the possible datasources and output formats)</li> <li>Create static content (automatically) by separating data from view</li> <li>Offline generation modes with Cocoon's own <a href="userdocs/offline/">offline facilities</a>: command-line interface (CLI), ant task, bean. Also with <a href="http://forrest.apache.org/";>Apache Forrest</a> which utilises Cocoon.</li> <li>Dynamic document preparation with <a href="http://forrest.apache.org/";>Apache Forrest</a>, the '<tt>forrest run</tt>' mode. Use many different data input formats, see the transformed result immediately in the browser.</li> <li>Advanced web applications with J2EE integration (with separation of your data, the view and the <a href="daisy:517">flow logic</a> --> this really means you can change one of the parts without touching another)</li> <li>Develop your company portal using the Cocoon Portal framework</li> <li>Support multiple clients, layouts and languages (i18n) without code duplication</li> <li>Integrate Cocoon with your existing web applications or use it to put a better face on them (page scraping)</li> <li>Add full-text search to any datasource that can be converted to XML (see below)</li> <li>Use Cocoon as the base for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)</li> <li>Use Cocoon as the base for your Content Management System (CMS) (see <a href="http://cocoon.apache.org/lenya/";>Apache Lenya</a> for a Cocoon based CMS)</li> <li>Use Cocoon for producing mobile content (mobile phones, pdas)</li> <li>Datawarehouse reporting across multiple formats (see xReporter)</li> </ul> <h1>Connect your datasources</h1> <p>Out of the box, the following data can be converted to XML to be processed by Cocoon pipelines.</p> <ul> <li>XML Files</li> <li>XML based (Web) services</li> <li>RDBMS (via <a href="http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc/";>JDBC</a>, including connection pooling)</li> <li>XML databases</li> <li>SAP (r) Systems by adding the SAP JavaConnector see <a href="http://service.sap.com/connectors/";>http://service.sap.com/connectors/</a> (accessible for all SAP (r) customers)</li> <li><a href="http://www.webdav.org/";>WebDAV</a></li> <li>CVS (supported by the external project <a href="http://cocoondev.org/projects/cvssource.html";>CVSSource</a>)</li> <li>Text-based file formats, either using the integrated <a href="http://chaperon.sourceforge.net/";>Chaperon </a> parser for a yacc-like approach to parsing, or the "slop" component (Simple Line Oriented Parser). </li> <li><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/";>Velocity templates</a></li> <li><a href="daisy:511">JXPath/Jexl templates</a></li> <li><a href="daisy:507">eXtensible Server Pages (XSP)</a> with wide range of logicsheets (database, mailing, ...)</li> <li><a href="http://www.jython.org/";>Python (Jython</a>) and generic <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/bsf/";>BSF support</a></li> <li><a href="http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/";>JSP</a></li> <li>Filesystem (traversing directory hierarchies)</li> <li>Any information provided by environment (request, session)</li> <li><a href="http://www.macromedia.com/";>Flash</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.palserv.com/XMidi/";>XMidi</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1777.txt?number=1777";>LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol</a></li> <li>Easily aggregate different datasources</li> </ul> <h1>Transform your XML based on standards</h1> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt";>XSLT</a> (The default XSLT-Engine is Apache Xalan, XSLTC is included in the Cocoon distribution, other XSLT-Engines like Saxon can be easily integrated)</li> <li><a href="http://stx.sourceforge.net/documents/spec-stx-20030505.html";>STX (Streaming Transformations for XML)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/";>XInclude</a> with <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr/";>XPointer</a> framework support</li> </ul> <h1>Serialize your XML to various output formats</h1> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/";>XML</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/";>HTML</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/XHTML/";>XHTML</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/adobepdf.html";>PDF</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.openoffice.org/";>OpenOffice.org/StarOffice</a></li> <li>MS Excel</li> <li> <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnrtfspec/html/rtfspec.asp";>RTF</a> </li> <li>Postscript</li> <li>Charts (see external project <a href="http://www.cocoondev.org/projects/fins.html";>Fins</a>)</li> <li><a href="http://www.macromedia.com/";>Flash</a></li> <li>Plain text</li> <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/";>Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)</a></li> <li>MIDI</li> <li>ZIP archives</li> </ul> <h1>What else we can do for you</h1> <ul> <li>Coexist and interoperate side-by-side with your existing J2EE solutions (<a href="http://java.sun.com/products/ejb/";>EJB</a>, <a href="http://java.sun.com/products/jms/";>JMS</a>, ...)</li> <li>Build your <a href="daisy:599">Portals</a> based on Cocoon</li> <li>Scheduler - Run background tasks for maintenance, etc.</li> <li>Caching on many levels</li> <li>Integrated search engine (using <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/";>Lucene</a>)</li> <li><a href="daisy:617">DELI</a> (detect client configuration)</li> <li>Catalog Entity Resolver to map to local copies of DTDs and other resources </li> <li>Publish your own WebServices (<a href="http://xml.apache.org/axis/";>Apache Axis</a> is integrated)</li> <li><a href="http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/";>Java Mail</a> support</li> <li>Easy integration of object-relational frameworks (<a href="http://db.apache.org/ojb/";>OJB</a>, <a href="http://www.hibernate.org/";>Hibernate</a>, ...)</li> <li>I18n support (translation support)</li> <li>Easily extensible by clear interfaces (write your own components following <a href="http://avalon.apache.org/";>Avalon</a> patterns)</li> <li>Many, many examples and samples</li> <li>Configurable build mechanism based on <a href="http://ant.apache.org/";>Ant</a> (you decide which parts of Cocoon you need)</li> <li>Integration of Java data binding frameworks (<a href="http://www.castor.org/";>Castor</a>, <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/betwixt/";>Betwixt</a>)</li> </ul> <h1>Form handling frameworks</h1> <ul> <li>Enhanced form handling with strong validation through <a href="daisy:489">Cocoon Forms</a></li> <li>Easy integration of (future) <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/";>XForms</a> clients</li> </ul> <h1>Cocoon deployment and integration</h1> <ul> <li>Cocoon can be run in every servlet container or J2EE application server that supports Java Servlets 2.2 and above, e.g. <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/";>Tomcat</a>, <a href="http://jetty.mortbay.org/jetty/";>Jetty</a>, <a href="http://www.jboss.org/";>JBoss</a> <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/software/jrun/";>JRun</a>, <a href="http://www.caucho.com/";>Resin</a>, <a href="http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/";>Websphere</a>, <a href="http://www.bea.com/";>Weblogic</a>, ...</li> <li>Command line execution, without requiring a servlet container</li> <li>Embeddable in any Java application</li> </ul> </body> </html> Collections =========== The document belongs to the following collections: cdocs-site-main
