Cocoon: Building XML Applications

Chapter 2. Building the Machine Web with XML

In the fast-paced world of Internet software architectures, where technology changes quickly and new de facto standards are sometimes born overnight, any new application architecture must be able to meet the challenges laid out in the Chapter 1, “An Introduction to Internet Applications.” Before any corporation invests in a new application architecture, it first compares it to whatever it is currently using and sees how the new offering can solve its problems.

Most of the available Internet applications were originally designed to publish data in a specific format—HTML. However, an HTML-based architecture ...