July 2002
Beginner to intermediate
504 pages
12h 56m
English
Content preview from Cocoon: Building XML Applications
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Conceiving and Designing a Cocoon Application
This finishes your full-featured Cocoon application. First you converted the extended portal from Chapter 7 to XSP, and then you added some more functions, such as a last-logged-in function and a random tip.
It is obvious from the sample portal that using a session is very useful in developing web applications. Unfortunately, currently the only way to deal with sessions is to use XSP or to write custom components. Chapter 12 presents some alternatives currently in development for Cocoon. These alternatives include a complete portal framework and complete session handling without the need to program Java or XSP.
This sample portal included all the important information in this chapter, especially ...