July 2002
Beginner to intermediate
504 pages
12h 56m
English

The last two chapters showed you how to develop new Java components for Cocoon. Adding components lets you extend Cocoon in many different ways to meet your specific needs. Because of how Cocoon is designed, it is very easy to drop these new components into a given Cocoon installation just by adding them to the sitemap and deploying the compile Java classes. However, as is often the case with Cocoon, there is another way to extend Cocoon: XSP.
The first part of this chapter looks at XSP. In the second part, you use this knowledge to extend the portal from Chapter 7, “Cocoon News Portal: Extended ...