Cocoon: Building XML Applications

What Is Needed to Develop Cocoon Components

Before starting to write a particular component, you first need to answer the most important question: What do you need in order to write your own components for Cocoon? Well, first of all, Cocoon. You already know that, so let’s move on. Actually, you need only one other thing: a Java Developer Kit (JDK).

Because Cocoon is based on the Java 1.2 platform, you need a developer kit that conforms to this version. Actually, you can use either JDK version 1.2 or 1.3. JDK 1.4 recently was released. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work with the version of Cocoon covered in this book. So, if you want to use JDK 1.4, you will have to get a more recent version of Cocoon from the Cocoon web site. You need JDK and not ...