Cocoon: Building XML Applications

Summary

This chapter started by presenting an overview of Cocoon and its concepts. We showed you how Cocoon can be run as a servlet and how you can configure it for maximum performance. We introduced the sitemap as the central configuration file and used examples to show how to build pipelines that can integrate various data sources and publish to a variety of formats. Additional components allow the processing flow inside a pipeline to be controlled by parameters sent to the server or obtained elsewhere.

We also suggested that you perhaps try to change the given examples by adding additional components or by formatting the data as some other output. Now is a good time to reiterate that suggestion before we move on.

All in all, you have now ...