Cocoon: Building XML Applications

Prerequisites for Installing Cocoon

For most installation scenarios, there are only two prerequisites for installing Cocoon.

First, a Java JDK must be available on the system. In writing this book, we used version 1.3.1 of the Sun JDK. The JDK can be downloaded from the Sun web site (www.sun.com). In case you already have an older version of the JDK installed, you need to make sure that the version is at least 1.2.2.

The most common installation environment is to run Cocoon as a servlet in a servlet engine. If one is already installed on the target machine, you can skip the sections on using Apache Tomcat. If no servlet engine is running, follow the step-by-step explanation of how to obtain and install Apache Tomcat.

If Cocoon is being installed ...