RE: Donating Portal and Authentication Components to the Cocoon project

2002-01-24 Thread Brian Topping 

Sorry, this was meant for Matthew individually...

best,

:B

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RE: Donating Portal and Authentication Components to the Cocoon project

2002-01-24 Thread Brian Topping 

Dear Matthew,

I would like to thank you very much for you and your company's gracious
offer to push your works back into the open source arena.  What you are
describing is extremely interesting, and I would welcome the opportunity
to explore whatever opportunities you have to get a head start on using
these tools.

Do you have any kinds of early, unsupported releases that I could get my
hands on?  

This is really exciting, and if it is what I think it is, I can only
wish your company the best of success in the future.  I hope that your
gift brings very good fortune to your company as a result.

Thank you for your consideration,

Brian Topping
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From: Matthew Langham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 6:08 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Donating Portal and Authentication Components to the Cocoon
project


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

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Re: Donating Portal and Authentication Components to the Cocoon project

2002-01-21 Thread Alex McLintock 

At 11:08 21/01/02, Matthew Langham 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.


I would like to see how this compares to the functionality of Jetspeed 
which is Apache's alternative portal solution.

Alex


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Re: Donating Portal and Authentication Components to the Cocoon project

2002-01-21 Thread Davanum Srinivas 

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
> =
> 
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