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Apache Cocoon - 2.0.4

Powerful XML/XSLT publishing framework

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All Time:	(1.0)
This Version:	(1.0)
Current Version:	2.0.4
Release Date:	2003-04-03
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	2,578
Downloads (all versions):	2,578

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From the Cocoon website:

Apache Cocoon is an XML publishing framework that raises the usage of XML and XSLT technologies for server applications to a new level. Designed for performance and scalability around pipelined SAX processing, Cocoon offers a flexible environment based on a separation of concerns between content, logic, and style. To top this all off, Cocoon's centralized configuration system and sophisticated caching help you to create, deploy, and maintain rock-solid XML server applications.

Cocoon interacts with most data sources, including filesystems, RDBMS, LDAP, native XML databases, and network-based data sources. It adapts content delivery to the capabilities of different devices like HTML, WML, PDF, SVG, and RTF, to name just a few. You can run Cocoon as a Servlet as well as through a powerful, commandline interface. The deliberate design of its abstract environment gives you the freedom to extend its functionality to meet your special needs in a highly modular fashion.

This distribution is designed to install seamlessly with the Complete Tomcat software distribution by Server Logistics. However, it will install and work with any Jakarta Tomcat software distribution.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Jakarta Tomcat 4.1.18+ (Complete Tomcat recommended)

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For Programmers Only - Version: 2.0.4, 5/8/2007 09:39AM PST

bmlcommerce

The docs claim that it is *easy* to build cocoon from the source, but clearly the creators have not tried it from scratch on Mac OS X. It doesn't build, even when you set the env vars as stated. The building of the project is a project in itself. Look elsewhere if you want something that just works.

For example, the docs say "Cocoon requires more recent versions of the Xerces and Xalan libraries than those shipped with j2se 1.4. To override bundled libraries, follow these steps..." I say "run away" unless you want to spend the day piecing it together and troubleshooting.