Cocoon 2.2 – Back to the Future

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e / 2 . le 5 g a l c o d e What has happened since

GT2005? [1]

 new Cocoon PMC chair  new committers – Max Pfingsthorn (Germany) – Arje Cahn (The Netherlands)

H B – M Jean-Baptiste Quenot (France) G

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U – T Simone Gianni (Italy) A R E B

– D Peter Hunsberger (U.S.) N U

G – I Jason Johnston (U.S.) S E D

E – R Ard Schrijvers (The Netherlands) A W T F

O – Andreas Hochsteger (Austria) S

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D – Lars Trieloff (Germany) ... at least, almost ;-) N I

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C OCTOBER, 4TH 2006 :: PAGE 2 REINHARD PÖTZ INDOQA.COM What has happened since

GT2005? [2]  Main discussion topics – Blocks – OSGi – Simplify Cocoon

H – B Mavenization (aka m10n) M G

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T Spring A R E B

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N ... and why does Sylvain have green hair ... ? U

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E Mails (10.2005 – 09.2006 / 10.2004 - 09.2005) D

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T users: 6,276 (9,560) F O S

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O dev: 10,959 (13,517) D N I

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G commits: 3,939 (4,307) I R Y P O

C OCTOBER, 4TH 2006 :: PAGE 3 REINHARD PÖTZ INDOQA.COM What has happened since

GT2005? [3]

 Releases: – Cocoon 2.1.9 (7 April 2006) – Cocoon 2.1.8 (18 November 2005)

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C OCTOBER, 4TH 2006 :: PAGE 4 REINHARD PÖTZ INDOQA.COM Back to the future!

 Cocoon 2.2M1 + several blocks have already been released ... but not announced because of the missing documentation ...

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B Bootstrapping your own Cocoon-based web M G

N application has never been so easy! U T A R E

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D Everything is a block N U

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C OCTOBER, 4TH 2006 :: PAGE 5 REINHARD PÖTZ INDOQA.COM Bootstrapping your Cocoon 2.2 based project

 use the block archetype to bootstrap your project: mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.cocoon -DarchetypeArtifactId=cocoon-22-archetype-block -DarchetypeVersion=1.0.0-M3 -DgroupId=com.mycompany

-DartifactId=myBlock H B M G

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U run your block T A

R mvn cocoon:deploy jetty6:run E B

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N point your browser to G I S

E http://localhost:8888 D

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O start to work S

Q mvn eclipse:eclipse O D N I

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C OCTOBER, 4TH 2006 :: PAGE 6 REINHARD PÖTZ INDOQA.COM What does Cocoon 2.2 already

bring? [1]

 standardised directory structure for blocks [block] /COB-INF/sitemap.xmap ..... the block's root sitemap /COB-INF/* ...... Cocoon application /COB-INF/config/spring .... Spring beans (LA) /META-INF/spring ...... Spring beans (GA)

H /META-INF/legacy/xconf .... Avalon component configs (GA) B M

G /META-INF/legacy/sitemap-additions

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U Sitemap components (GA) T A

R /META-INF/legacy/xweb ..... patch files for web.xml E B

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GA ... globally available LA ... locally available N G I

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R  A di stributed configurations W T F O S

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Q also block-local component configurations are O D N I

T possible H G I R Y P O

C OCTOBER, 4TH 2006 :: PAGE 7 REINHARD PÖTZ INDOQA.COM What does Cocoon 2.2 already

bring? [2]

 we go towards „convention over configuration“  Cocoon 2.2 applications should (but don't need to) be blocks  a „normal“ web application is only used to assemble

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G your blocks - „auto detection“ mechanism by the

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T Cocoon deployer (a Maven plugin) A R E B

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U this is achieved by adding all block you need as

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S dependencies to the pom.xml (Maven project E D

R descriptor) of your web application module A W T F

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backwards compatibility still given A Q O D N I

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C OCTOBER, 4TH 2006 :: PAGE 8 REINHARD PÖTZ INDOQA.COM What does Cocoon 2.2 already

bring? [3]

 based on Spring – no bridging or other „tricks“ – Cocoon is set up by Spring following the traditional Spring way of using the Spring context listener

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G Property management

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E log4j as default B

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G distribution of binary artifacts I S E D

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A Mavenized W T F O S

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Q backwards compatibility still given O D N I

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C OCTOBER, 4TH 2006 :: PAGE 9 REINHARD PÖTZ INDOQA.COM So what's missing?

 documentation, documentation, documentation  articles (xml.com, TSS, blog entries, ...)

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G N U T A R E B

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N G I Everybody here can contribute! S E D

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C OCTOBER, 4TH 2006 :: PAGE 10 REINHARD PÖTZ INDOQA.COM What will Cocoon 2.2 bring in the near future?

 Spring-based sitemap blocks  a stable Javaflow block again, which depends on Jakarta Commons javaflow  Re-Integration of the reloading classloader

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G (scripting Java)

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E splitting the core of Cocoon into even smaller B

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E of Flowscript optional) D

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F Virtual sitemap components O S

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C OCTOBER, 4TH 2006 :: PAGE 11 REINHARD PÖTZ INDOQA.COM (My) Vision

 I want to use Cocoon from within any Java application  I want to choose which parts of Cocoon I want to use

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G I want to see even more powerful XML processing

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A using pipelines R E B

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C OCTOBER, 4TH 2006 :: PAGE 12 REINHARD PÖTZ INDOQA.COM Possible future goals [2]

 remove the dependencies on Avalon and Excalibur  Java API as an alternative to the sitemap language in XML  dynamic, content-aware pipelines

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G remember: currently a pipeline is created before it

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T is executed – you can't react on the content A R E B

D  N

U pull pipelines

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E e.g. by using Axiom as base technology D

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C OCTOBER, 4TH 2006 :: PAGE 13 REINHARD PÖTZ INDOQA.COM Possible future goals [2]

 OSGi – some good news: – Oracle, BEA and Interface 21 are very interested in providing Spring capabilities on top of the OSGi Service Platform. –

H ... some well know OSGi developers/evangelists BJ B M G

Hargrave, Richard Hall, Peter Kriens also joined this G N U T

A OSGi/Spring team R E B

N – U by this initiative not all but a lot of work will be done

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E for us :-) D

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C OCTOBER, 4TH 2006 :: PAGE 14 REINHARD PÖTZ INDOQA.COM Possible future goals [3]

 OSGi – some good news: – read more: ● http://www.osgi.org/blog/2006/08/osgi-and- spring_29.html

H ● B http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/spring/brow M G

N se/SPR-1802 U T A

R ● E

B https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/springframework

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/spring-osgi/trunk/ N G I S E D

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