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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
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
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
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
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
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...
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
The relaunch of cocoon.apache.org went online. Check it out!
{2007-10-02} posted by Reinhard Pötz
Currently I'm working on my keynote presentation for Friday - as you might expect, I will talk about Cocoon 2.2. I will be arriving in Rome tommorrow morning. See you there!
For the upcoming Apache Cocoon documentation I was working on a Daisy Maven 2 plugin. This plugin extracts content from a Daisy 1.5.1 repository and creates a structure which is expected by the Maven 2 site plugin to create and deploy HTML docume...
{2007-05-17} posted by Reinhard Pötz
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. - Seneca
