Apache Cocoon 2.0.4 for Windows

What is Cocoon?

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.

Installation

This example shows the latest version of the product (17th March 2003), but you may see the other version.
Download Java Virtual Machine SDK (j2sdk-1_4_1_01-windows-i586.exe) from sun website and install it
Download Apache/Tomact (jakarta-tomcat-4.1.18.exe) from The Jakarta Project (http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat) and install it.
Downlaad Apache/Cocoon (cocoon-2.0.4-vm14-bin.zip), extract and place cocoon.war into [../tomcat 4.1/webapps] directry.
Open a browser and access "http://localhost:8080", you'll see "The Apache Jakarta Project, Tomcat" page and access "http://localhost:8080/cocoon/", you'll see "Cocoon" page. That's all done.

Create a web application

Open $COCOON_HOME\sitemap.xmap and add pointer to your web application below pipeline

<!-- ========================= Pipelines =============================== -->
 <map:pipelines>

  <map:pipeline>
    <map:match pattern="ba/**">
    <map:mount uri-prefix="ba"
      src="file:K:/doc/manual/ba/sitemap.xmap"
      check-reload="yes" />
    </map:match>
  </map:pipeline>

Copy $COCOON_HOME\samples\sitemap.xmap into your web application directory and modify like below

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<map:sitemap xmlns:map="http://apache.org/cocoon/sitemap/1.0">
<!-- =========================== Components ================================ -->

 <map:components>

  <map:matchers default="wildcard"/>
  <map:selectors default="browser"/>
  <map:generators default="file"/>
  <map:transformers default="xslt"/>
  <map:readers default="resource"/>
  <map:serializers default="html"/>

 </map:components>

<!-- =========================== Views =================================== -->

 <map:views>
  <map:view name="content" from-label="content">
   <map:serialize type="xml"/>
  </map:view>

  <map:view name="pretty-content" from-label="data">
    <map:transform src="common/style/xsl/html/simple-xml2html.xsl"/>
    <map:serialize type="html"/>
  </map:view>
  
  <map:view name="links" from-position="last">
   <map:serialize type="links"/>
  </map:view>

 </map:views>

<!-- =========================== Pipelines ================================= -->
 <map:pipelines>
  <map:pipeline>

   <map:match pattern="">
    <map:redirect-to uri="index.html"/>
   </map:match>
 
   <map:match pattern="index.html">
     <map:generate src="index.xml"/>
     <map:transform src="style/indexhtml.xsl"/>
     <map:serialize/>
   </map:match>

   <map:match pattern="**.html">
     <map:generate src="{1}.xml"/>
     <map:transform src="style/html.xsl"/>
     <map:serialize/>
   </map:match>

   <map:match pattern="**.pdf">
     <map:generate src="{1}.xml"/>
     <map:transform src="style/pdf.xsl"/>
     <map:serialize type="fo2pdf"/>
   </map:match>

   <map:match pattern="**.xls">
     <map:generate src="{1}.xml"/>
     <map:transform src="style/simple-page2xls.xsl"/>
     <map:serialize type="fo2xls"/>
   </map:match>

   <map:match pattern="**.doc">
     <map:generate src="{1}.xml"/>
     <map:serialize type="fo2rtf"/>
   </map:match>

   <map:match pattern="**.css">
     <map:read mime-type="text/css" src="{1}.css"/>
   </map:match>


   <map:match pattern="**.htm">
     <map:generate type="file" src="{1}.htm"/>
     <map:serialize type="html"/>
   </map:match>

   <!-- ========================= Server ================================ -->

   <map:match pattern="**favicon.ico">
    <map:read src="common/resources/icons/cocoon.ico" mime-type="application/ico"/>
   </map:match>
   
   <!-- ================== Common ======================= -->
   <map:match pattern="*.css">
    <map:read src="common/style/css/{1}.css" mime-type="text/css"/>
   </map:match>

   <map:match pattern="images/*.gif">
    <map:read src="common/resources/images/{1}.gif" mime-type="image/gif"/>
   </map:match>

   <map:match pattern="images/*.jpg">
    <map:read src="common/resources/images/{1}.jpg" mime-type="image/jpg"/>
   </map:match>

   <map:match pattern="images/*.png">
    <map:read src="common/resources/images/{1}.png" mime-type="image/png"/>
   </map:match>

   <!-- samples automount -->  
   <map:match pattern="*/**">
     <map:mount uri-prefix="{1}" src="{1}/" check-reload="yes"/>
   </map:match>

   <map:handle-errors>
    <map:transform src="common/style/xsl/html/error2html.xsl"/>
    <map:serialize type="html" status-code="500"/>
   </map:handle-errors>

  </map:pipeline>
 </map:pipelines>

</map:sitemap>

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