Apache Cocoon 3 on the way

Now it's official: Corona, the reimplementation of Cocoon which is currently available in the Cocoon whiteboard has been accepted by the Cocoon PMC and will become Apache Cocoon 3, the next major version of Cocoon! When Steven and I started with ...

{2008-08-17}  posted by Reinhard Pötz

Classic Cocoon 2.2 web applications

Inspired by Vadim's last year's Cocoon GetTogether presentation, I created a simple Maven module that demonstrates how Cocoon 2.2 can be used in classic mode. Classic mode means that Cocoon 2.2 is used without the Servlet-Service Framework or cus...

{2008-08-13}  posted by Reinhard Pötz

jBoss jBPM meets ESB

The combination of a process engine and an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is one interessting aspect of modern service oriented architectures (SOA). Therefor I (and Bernd Rücker) wrote an article in the German Java Magazin about it. To have a pract...

{2008-07-14}  posted by Markus Demolsky

Apache Cocoon 2.2.0 Released

After too many years of development, Apache Cocoon 2.2.0 finally arrived. As I wrote in  Cocoon 2.2: A new architecture a lot of things have improved. There is also a Getting Started guide that  helps you with you first steps. Have fun!

{2008-05-16}  posted by Reinhard Pötz

Java Pipeline API

The most famous concept of Cocoon is pipelines. The first component of a pipeline generates a stream that is passed to components that can modify  this stream and finally you get the result, e.g. a java.io.OutputStream. I guess that developers ha...

{2008-04-03}  posted by Reinhard Pötz

Google Summer of Code 2008 project proposal

This year I've proposed a Google Summer of Code project for Apache Cocoon again. The project description can be found in the Apache Wiki next to the dozens of other proposals coming from the other Apache projects. The goal is the upgrade of Cocoo...

{2008-03-17}  posted by Reinhard Pötz

Cocoon 2.2: A new architecture

Last week the vote for Cocoon 2.2-RC2 passed and I'm happy to announce the release of it. Actually Cocoon 2.2 isn't the big monolith that you might know from the 2.1.x or 2.0.x series. We have been working hard to make Cocoon more modular: From ...

{2007-11-05}  posted by Reinhard Pötz

That was the Cocoon GetTogether 2007 Rome

After two interesting Hackathon days, Friday was reserved for the 'official' program. After doing my keynote "Cocoon 2.2 - A long Journey", Francesco Chicchiriccò did a presentation "Hands on Cocoon". He was talking about a lot of projects that h...

{2007-10-10}  posted by Reinhard Pötz

Reloading web applications

Recently there was an article on TheServerSide: JavaRebel Brings Class Reloading to Java. Unfortunatly we (Apache Cocoon) haven't talked much about it but this feature has already been available for Cocoon for quite some time. Thanks to Jakarta C...

{2007-10-10}  posted by Reinhard Pötz

Cocoon 2.2 - A long Journey (CocoonGT 2007 Keynote)

This year I had the honour of doing my second keynote presentation for a Cocoon GetTogether. On popular demand I was talking about Cocoon 2.2 and the developer's motivations behind all the new stuff: Spring 2.0 as component container the Servlet...

{2007-10-09}  posted by Reinhard Pötz