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C O C O O N
1.8
Contents
* What is it?
* Where is it?
* Requirements
* Release Notes for Cocoon 1.8
* Licensing and Legal Issues
What is it?
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Cocoon is a 100% pure Java publishing framework that relies on
new W3C technologies (such as XML and XSL) to provide web content.
The Cocoon project aims to change the way web information is created,
rendered and delivered. This new paradigm is based on fact that document
content, style and logic are often created by different individuals or
working groups.
Cocoon aims to a complete separation of the three layers, allowing the
three layers to be indipendently designed, created and managed, reducing
management overhead, increasing work reuse and reducing time to market.
Where is it?
------------
The home page for the Cocoon project can be found in the Apache XML Project
web site (http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/). There you also find information
on how to download the latest release as well as all the other information
you might need regarding this project.
Requirements
------------
Cocoon is implemented both as a Java servlet and a Java command line
application. The following requirements exist for installing it:
o A Java 1.1 or later compatible virtual machine for your operating system.
o Server API 2.x Servlet Engine (optional for command line operation).
Installation Instructions and Documentation
-------------------------------------------
The documentation available as of the date of this release is
included in the "docs/" directory (unless you got this from CVS,
in which case you need to run build docs, which generates documentation
in the build/docs directory).
Look for the most updated documentation on the Cocoon web site under
the Apache XML Project (http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/).
Release Notes for Cocoon 1.8
----------------------------
There are no reported major issues with this release.
As usual, if upgrading from an earlier release, you need to replace your
cocoon.properties file with the one supplied in
src/org/apache/cocoon/cocoon.properties,
(then make any site-specific adjustments if you have any),
or Cocoon will very likely not work at all.
*** IMPORTANT ***
If you get an error message about ProducerFromRequest, this means
that you forgot to do the above. See the FAQ for more details.
Note also that you need an additional library, new to 1.8,
turbine-pool.jar, which is in the /lib directory, to be visible
to the servlet engine. See the installation instructions.
As usual, changes since previous releases are documented in docs/changes.html
Highlights include:
* Database connection pooling
* Numerous bugfixes, including better Servlet 2.0 compatibility
* Increased performance for heavy load conditions
* Also increased speed for some XSP pages which include complex Nodes
* New ESQL logicsheet allowing easy post-processing of resultsets in XSP
* Improved documentation, with new expanded FAQ
* More installation instructions for more different servlet engines
* Experimental FP taglib for form-handling and other tasks
* Jikes support for faster XSP page compilation
Licensing and legal issues
--------------------------
For legal and licensing issues, please read the LICENSE file.
Thanks for using Cocoon.
The Apache XML Project
http://xml.apache.org/
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