Cocoon: Building XML Applications

Chapter 8. A Developer’s Look at the Cocoon Architecture

So far this book has looked at the Cocoon architecture from a user perspective. Many different types of XML applications can be built using Cocoon as it is installed and with the components provided in the standard distribution. However, Cocoon obviously does not provide components for every data source available or for all the different types of applications you might want to build.

One of the great advantages of Cocoon is the fact that there is no need to wait for a new version to come out that provides a component for your particular data source. Because Cocoon is freely available ...