Apache Cocoon

• XML based publishing Framework

• An Apache Software Foundation opensource project

• Written in Java, runs as a servlet ( not strictly true ! )

• Project Home Page: http://xml.apache.org/cocoon

• Started as a simple servlet based XSL styling engine for http://java.apache.org site

• Current version is in the second generation of evolution

• Designed for scalability ( uses SAX processing ) -- can process huge documents using small amount of memory

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History:

Cocoon Project was started by Stefano Mazzocchi in 1998.

Reference: An article by Stefano on Cocoon http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/02/13/cocoon2.html

Running Cocoon:

Cocoon can also be run as a standalone program taking commandline arguments; or

Main Cocoon class can be instantiated from another Java program.