Cocoon: Building XML Applications

Different Types of Applications

Cocoon lends itself to being used to build a variety of solutions. Although Cocoon is aimed primarily at the XML publishing sector, adding your own components lets you expand Cocoon into a complete middleware architecture.

In the past we have worked on building a commercial solution that provides additional (and sometimes customer-specific) components needed to provide a complete solution. We added components and functionality to Cocoon without throwing away a single Cocoon concept. This shows the extensibility of the architecture.

To give you some idea of what perhaps you can do to solve a specific problem, here are some of the extensions we have written to provide the various solutions we have built with Cocoon: ...