Cocoon Core 2.2

Getting Started

Getting Started

Getting Better

Getting Better

Getting Involved

Getting Involved

What is Apache Cocoon?

Apache Cocoon is a Spring-based framework built around the concepts of separation of concerns and component-based development.

Cocoon implements these concepts around the notion of component pipelines, each component on the pipeline specializing on a particular operation. This makes it possible to use a Lego(tm)-like approach in building web solutions, hooking together components into pipelines, often without any required programming.

Cocoon used as web framework is "web glue for your web application development needs". It is a glue that keeps concerns separate and allows parallel evolution of all aspects of a web application, improving development pace and reducing the chance of conflicts. In particular it makes it easy to support multiple output formats, offers continuation based web controller implementations and comes with a JSR-168 compatible Portal implementation.

What are Cocoon blocks?

A block is the unit of modularization (Eclipse uses the term plugins, OSGi bundles) in Cocoon. Everything that goes beyond that what Cocoon provides in its core modules (Spring integration, sitemap and pipeline implementation) is provided as block. Every custom Cocoon application is developed as block. A block can provide following features:

  • sitemap services by provide pipelines that can be called by a special purpose protocol (block:) as a special servlet service
  • general servlet services (any servlet can be managed by the Cocoon blocks framework)
  • component services (Spring beans, Avalon services/components)
  • a container for classes and resources

A block is packaged as Java archive (jar) following certain conventions.

News

Apache Cocoon 2.1.10 Released
The Apache Cocoon Community is proud to announce the new release of Apache Cocoon. Apache Cocoon is a web development framework built around the concept of separation of concerns (that is: allowing people to do their job without having to step on each other toes) and component-oriented web RAD. ... [more]
submitted by Reinhard Pötz, 1/1/07 6:55:14 PM
Milestone 2 of Cocoon Core 2.2 reached
Today the Cocoon PMC released following artifacts. [list of all artifacts] The newly introduced contracts of cocoon-core-M2 are considered mostly as stable. Depending on the users' feedback we will either continue with a first release candidate or if necessary more milestone releases. Over t... [more]
submitted by Reinhard Pötz, 1/1/07 6:55:14 PM

Versions

Stable

The latest stable release of Cocoon is 2.1.10. Downloads and documentation are available.

Development

Our development version is Cocoon 2.2. We are working hard to make Cocoon more modular by splitting it up into smaller pieces. So far our milestone releases are only available from the public Maven repositories. The best way to get familiar with Cocoon 2.2 and how to use if together with Maven 2 is the Getting started tutorial.

Previous versions

Older versions of Cocoon are 2.0 and 1.x. It is not recommended to start a new project based on one of them.

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