Cocoon: Building XML Applications

Cocoon: Building XML Applications is the guide to the Apache Cocoon project. The book contains the much needed documentation on the Cocoon project, but it does not limit itself to just being a developers handbook. The book motivates the use of XML and XML software (in particular open source software). It contains everything a beginner needs to get going with Cocoon as well as the detailed information a developer needs to develop new and exciting components to extend the XML publishing framework. Although each chapter builds upon the previous ones, the book is designed so that the chapters can also be read as individual guides to the topics they discuss. Varied "hands-on" examples are used to make the underlying concepts and technologies absolutely clear to anyone starting out with Cocoon. Chapters that detail the authors experience in building Internet applications are used to embed Cocoon into the "real world" and complete the picture. [md]Matthew Langham and Carsten Ziegeler

Table of Contents

1. An Introduction to Internet Applications.
2. Building the Machine Web with XML.
3. Getting Started with Cocoon.
4. Putting Cocoon to Work.
5. Cocoon News Portal: Entry Version.
6. A User's Look at the Cocoon Architecture.
7. Cocoon News Portal: Extended Version.
8. A Developer's Look at the Cocoon Architecture.
9. Developing Components for Cocoon.
10. Cocoon News Portal: Advanced Version.
11. Designing Cocoon Applications.
12. Cocoon: Weaving the Future.
Appendix A: Cocoon Components.
Appendix B - Cocoon API Specifications.
Appendix C: Links on the Web.
Index.