I can see you are confused. The 2.1 versions of Cocoon need to be built
from source because that is the only way to allow you to select the
blocks you want to use and not include the stuff you don't want. The 2.2
version of Cocoon has fixed this, however to do that it uses Maven so
that you only get the Cocoon dependencies you need from the Maven
repository. Frankly, if you haven't used Maven before I'd recommend you
learn it even if you don't end up using Cocoon. It is a very good build
tool and is used by a lot of Java projects. If
http://cocoon.apache.org/1370_1_1.html wasn't helpful to you then I'd
suggest you post back with specific questions.
Ralph
Mansour wrote:
I am newbie to cocoon. I don't understand why the installation have to
be from source. Why not just distribute cocoon as a binary. The good
part about java is that we don't have to build the program, and the
binaries are plat form independent. Building and installing cocoon
somehow reminded me of "make" and "configure" in the old days of C/C++.
Another interesting question. I understand that cocoon is great and
it's used for "separation of concerns" and ... and , and many other
things, and with little efforts and coding, it can even do my laundry
and walk my dog and make pizza for me. But seriously, what is't for? I
have built the war file, and had a look at the samples, but didn't see
any thing different. Again, I don't wanna get anyone mad, and I agree
it's the perfect technology, but where does it fit ? I can do every
thing in the samples with different XSLT's. SO what's the big deal?
About the tutorials, can I get started without using maven. Why do I
need to learn maven before I learn cocoon.
The reason I need to know more about cocoon, because I was working the
other day with jetspeed, and then I started to play with apache lenya
which depends on cocoon. So I decided to have a look at cocoon, and
know I find myself in front of another tool (maven). Will this chain
ever end?? The bottom line, is there any "plain cocoon tutorial" ? If
not, any advice about how to start without having to read the source
code ;)
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