Matthew, Carsten, Thanks a ton for considering a donation. Here's my +1000 for accepting this donation.
-- dims --- Matthew Langham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As some of you already know, our company has built a complete middleware > solution around Cocoon. This product, named "sunShine", is successfully > being used to build a variety of different solutions for various customers > here in Germany. sunShine applications range from Web portals to XML based > workflow systems. > > We think Cocoon is an ideal solution for building XML applications and are > proud to be a part of this great community. In the past we have donated > smaller components, Carsten's development efforts and other bits and pieces > to the Cocoon project. We are also doing our best to increase visibility for > Cocoon by writing articles for magazines and speaking at conferences about > Cocoon. > > Although the current primary use of Cocoon is as a Web publishing framework > we see great potential for integrated components that provide such things as > authentication and portal capabilities. To honor this we are willing to > return parts of sunShine back to the Cocoon project. These parts will > include Cocoon components for authentication, session management and > building portals. All of these components adhere to the Cocoon architecture > and are "tried and trusted". > > Here is a brief description: > > The authorization components allow the integration of given data-sources > (e.g. databases that may already contain user information) and provide a > means of protecting pipelines so that only authorized users can access the > defined resources. > > The portal engine is totally SAX-based and is integrated into the sitemap. > Portals can be described in an XML format. Content can be defined for the > portal using regular Cocoon pipelines. Based on the authorization > components, a portal generator "gets" the portal description for a user and > streams the complete portal content into the pipeline. A following > stylesheet transformation transforms this into HTML. > > > We have discussed this move with several people from the Cocoon community > and have received tremendous feedback. Therefore Carsten is currently > working to bring the components in line with an upcoming Cocoon release and > we will be donating them (along with documentation, samples etc.) in the > near future. Probably around the middle of February. > > In the meantime please contact us if you would like any further information. > > Best regards > > Matthew Langham / Carsten Ziegeler > > -- > Open Source Group sunShine - Lighting up e:Business > ================================================================= > Matthew Langham, S&N AG, Klingenderstrasse 5, D-33100 Paderborn > Tel:+49-5251-1581-30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.s-und-n.de > ================================================================= > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ===== Davanum Srinivas - http://jguru.com/dims/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
