Congratulations to all for all the work, and to Carsten for putting it together!
I noticed there was no mention of the interpreted sitemap in the announcement. Was it on purpose to not confuse people? Ovidiu On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 09:51:19 +0100, "Carsten Ziegeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apache Cocoon 2.0.2 Released > ---------------------------- > > The Apache Cocoon team is proud to announce the new release > of Apache Cocoon. > > > Apache Cocoon is an XML framework that raises the usage of > XML and XSLT technologies for server applications to a new level. > Designed for performance and scalability around pipelined SAX > processing, Cocoon offers a flexible environment based on the > separation of concerns between content, logic and style. > A centralized configuration system and sophisticated caching > top this all off and help you to create, deploy and maintain > rock-solid XML server applications. > > > > Today, most web engineers consider XML as the key for an improved > web model and web site managers see XML as a way to reduce costs > and ease production. In an era where services rather than software > will be key for economic success, a better and less expensive model > for web publishing will be a winner, especially one based on open > standards. > > > > This release of Cocoon is a maintainance release focusing on > improved performance and robustness. In addition some bugs were > fixed and new features were added. See the following changes list > for more information. > > > > For more information about Apache Cocoon 2.0.2, please go to > http://xml.apache.org/cocoon > > Changes with Apache Cocoon 2.0.2 > > *) New BootstrapServlet to allow Cocoon torun in non-compliant servlet > engines that don't handle correctly servlet contexts. This servlet builds a > class loader with the contents of WEB-INF/classes and WEB-INF/lib and > manages resource resolution. [SW] > > *) Updated error reporting to add line, column and location attributes > specified in SAXException and TransformerException. The error page in the > webapp examples shows the new extra info. [NKB] > > *) Added new "gump" target to the build, to be used as a general test of > Cocoon code. To be used by Gump. It calls docs, javadocs, test and package. > Gump descriptor has been modified to use it; now we also have automatic > javadoc creation. [NKB] > > *) cocoon.xconf is moved in WEB-INF for security reasons. The documentation > has been updated to reflect the change. [NKB] > > *) Partial commit of new samples structure. Samples go in samples/ dir with > theit own sitemap. All scratchpad samples that are in the samples/ subdir > are copied in webapp samples automatically by installscratchpadwar target. > [NKB] > > *) New "set-content-length" configuration for FOPSerializer to allow > streaming of large PDFs (default is true for backwards compatibility). [SW] > > *) The docs now have svg stuff removed and these enhancements: menu items > are in text, page title is in text, pages have new clean style courtesy of > Stefano, added Stefano's explanation on how to write mails, the docs are > generated with the TreeProcessor, the docs generation uses JispStore. [NKB] > > *) Added new targets: "installwar" asks for the directory in which to put > the war and makes it. "installscratchpadwar" does the same but incudes > scratchpad libs ans samples. [NKB] > > *) New POI HSSF Serializer; outputs to the .xls (not .xsl) file format. > Added samples as legacy file format support. [NKB] > > *) New module structure for input, output, and database specifica in > scratchpad. Thus it is possible to write generic components for one task and > replace input and output dynamically. As an example a generic version of a > WildcardMatcher is provided as well as a sample action that uses it. > DatabaseActions in scratchpad use this structure as well. [CH] > > *) Moved ModularDatabase*Actions to new home in scratchpad and reworked > them. They now use new module structure. For sample application, copy mod-db > directory to cocoon/mount. [CH] > > *) Changed jdbc datasource to ResourceLimitingJdbcDataSource because it does > not require to be able to contact the datasource on startup. Thus race > condition with HSQLDB startup is eliminated. [CH] > > *) Added new Jisp based persistence cache, to improve (1) performance and > (2) to solve the problem with long filenames on Windows OS flavours. [VG,GF] > > *) Removed explicit System.gc() call from StoreJanitor, because this caused > performance leaks. [GF] > > *) Added support for input type=image buttons [TC] > > *) Deprecated the old cocoon-action=ACTION syntax in favor of the new > cocoon-action-[ACTION]=whatever. Still supported though. [TC] > > *) Added encodeURL transformer for encoding URIs. [BH] > > *) Using migrated XPath Processor from Avalon Excalibur instead of own > component. [CZ] > > *) Fixed endless loop bug in IncludeXMLConsumer. [CZ] > > *) Added <xsp:page create-session=""> attribute now processed correctly, as > described in the xsp-session logicsheet documentation. Variable 'session' > declared and could be used in XSP page code. [VG] > > *) New implementation of the sitemap engine based on an evaluation tree. > This provides super-fast load times (no more compilation), and a slight gain > in request processing speed compared to the compiled engine thanks to the > HotSpot VM. [SW] > > *) Added matchers: HeaderMatcher, ParameterMatcher. [VG] > > *) Added CookieSelector. [VG] > > *) Added CookieMatcher. [VG] > > *) Request, response, and session XSP logicsheets in Javascript language are > added. [VG] > > *) Added Cocoon link page. [SM] > > *) Added 'cocoon.ico'. [SM] > > *) Cleaned up documentation and refactored it a little. [SM] > > *) Started to clean up the XML:DB stuff. The XML:DB generators have been > deprecated, and a note has been written in the docs suggesting to switch to > the XML:DB pseudo-protocol. Configurations have been switched from dbXML to > Xindice. [GR] > > *) New WriteableSource interface that extends Source. Just as Source for > reading, it allows to transparently write to various destinations. The first > implementation is FileSource to write to files. [SW] > > *) Added FileWritingTransformer and sample file editor to scratchpad. [JQ] > > *) Fixed some bugs in the file URI resolving on windows plattforms. [CZ] > > *) Using migrated entity resolver from Avalon Excalibur instead of own > component. [CZ] > > *) Javascript language now supported by the XSP pages. Samples of Javascript > XSP pages are added. [VG] > > *) Using migrated XML Parser from Avalon Excalibur instead of own component. [CZ] > > *) Added subprotocol "raw" to the cocoon: protocol. When the subprotocol is > appended, the request parameters of the original request are not forwarded > to the internal pipelines. Suggested by Michael Hartle > [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]. [CZ] > > *) Added Pizza Java compiler as another alternative to Sun javac and Jikes. > [VG] > > *) ProgramLanguage is decoupled now from the languages compiled into Java. > Instead of Class object representing a program, Program interface has been > introduced. [VG] > > *) Text located in XSP language logicsheets now properly quoted. [VG] > > *) SQL Transformer did enter Infinite Loop. This is fixed now. [CZ] > > *) Sitemap engine verifies that root element is the <sitemap> element in the > 'http://apache.org/cocoon/sitemap/1.0' namespace. [VG] > > *) Move commonalities between sitemap markup language and XSP markup > language into CocoonMarkupLanguage. [VG] > > *) Minor rewrite of the LogTransformer. The logfile is now resolved using > the standard source resolver. The component is now recycled properly. [CZ] > > *) Minorrewrite of the SQLTransformer. Removed several parameters tests and > the use of Properties objects - instead the Parameters object is used > directly. [CZ] > > *) Action LangSelect has been deprecated in favor of LocaleAction. [VG] > > *) Allow sitemap components to be declared in the cocoon.xconf. Enhance > SitemapComponentSelector to store label information provided in the > configuration. [VG] > > *) Added the XPath-enabled DirectoryGenerator (XPathDirectoryGenerator) to > scratchpad. [GR] > > *) XSP engine verifies that root element is the <page> element in the > 'http://apache.org/xsp' namespace. [VG] > > *) Markup language logicsheets in general and XSP logicsheets in particular > are now looked up by their namespace URI, not prefix. [VG] > > *) xsp-request and xsp-response logicsheets got more tags, and now are > (almost) backward compatible with the logicsheets in Cocoon 1.8. [VG] > > *) Cache relies on two types of store components: (1) transient cache, with > cache-transient shorthand, and (2) persistent cache, with cache-persistent > shorthand. [VG] > > *) FilesystemStore (used as programs repository) now is created as all other > components from the cocoon.xconf, and can be configured to use working > directory, cache directory, or any other directory. [VG] > > *) Calling getInputStream() on a "cocoon:" source now returns the same > output as an external call instead of always using an XML serializer. This > also allows to get internally data produced by a Reader. [SW] > > *) Fixed memory leaks in XScript engine. Fixed global and session scope > variables: now they are shared between XScript pages as it should be. Page > scope variables now visible for all instances of the same page. [VG] > > *) Added size() method to the Store interface. [VG] > > *) Prevent PostInputStream from looping if the available() method of the > base InputStream is returning 0. [GP] > > *) Added X-Cocoon-Version header to all responses generated by Cocoon. [VG] > > *) SystemID for cocoon: pseudo-protocol URIs changed from the form of > <schema>:\\<host>:<port>\path\to\resource\from\the\root\sitemap to the form > cocoon:\\path\to\resource\from\the\root\sitemap. This provides portability > for compiled resources generated from the cocoon: sources. [VG] > > *) Stored Procedure support for esql plus ability to obtain and use a result > set from any column just like a nested query. 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