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 ================================================================= --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
