Cocoon: Building XML Applications

Wrapping Up the User Perspective

We have reached the end of our tour through Cocoon from the user perspective. All the Cocoon features we have discussed up to this point are available without your having to write any Java code to use them. You learned about the additional ways to configure Cocoon and, in particular, which configuration parameters exist to allow a Cocoon-based application to return the requested documents as quickly as possible.

Apart from the more common components, such as transformers and generators, Cocoon also provides additional components such as action-sets, and it allows different pipelines to be combined using content aggregation. We completed the explanation of the different sitemap sections, especially views and sitemap ...