Apache Cocoon 3-alpha-1 released
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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 the reimplementation, we had two main goals: Hav...
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 custom blocks. Both are great features but they are n...
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!
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 have wished to have a library that makes this easy:...
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 Cocoon Forms from Dojo 0.4.x to 1.1. If you are a stude...
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 a first glance the most significant change has bee...
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 he implemented based on Cocoon. Quite impressive an...
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 Commons JCI the hard work of class reloading is alr...
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-Service framework that establishes contracts in m...
