...I think. I have an existing Cocoon service running 2.1.11 under Tomcat5 and Apache in CentOS5 on a very old server, and I now have a new server running CentOS6, Apache2, and Tomcat6 that I want to migrate to, but I am held up by my lack of understanding of what has been happening to Coocon, and I'm an XML person, not a Java person :-)
The existing service is not an "application" in the normal sense: it's just a large collection of directories under /var/www/xml, each with its own sitemap.xmap, serving a lot of XML documents as HTML via XSLT. Many of the documents are in fact HTML, retrieved in real time from elsewhere in our site using Tidy in order to force xhtml or HTML5. The cocoon.war is the stock 2.1.11 with no mods except the substitution of saxon9.jar so we can use XSLT2. I would like to be able to update all this to 2.2, and eventually to Cocoon 3.0, but the lack of a prebuilt .war file means I am at a loss as to how to do this. The existing service simply serves XML converted with XSLT2, nothing more: there are no requirements for authentication (it's all public), templates, forms, or FOP (we use XSLT2 and XeLaTeX for PDFs), and no "applications" as such. The stock 2.1.11 cocoon.war file undoubtedly includes vast amounts of stuff we never even go near using, but I have no idea what to exclude or include when it comes to building a new one in 2.2 or 3.0. The block examples in the 2.2 Tutorials *appear* to be vastly more complex than is needed for what we want to do (although this may just be my ignorance: in fact Cocoon 1.x always did everything we needed!). A further requirement is obviously robust and working versions of Ant or Maven, as in the past I have never been able to get either of these to work on the platform available (there have always been unresolvable dependencies for libraries simply unavailable). Has anyone ever implemented Cocoon 2.2 or 3 on CentOS6? I have a small budget for help with this, either for training or consultancy or both (preferably both so that I can learn). Or do I just pick up the current 2.1.11 cocoon.war file and drop it into the new system and leave it alone? ///Peter -- Peter Flynn | Academic & Collaborative Technologies | University College Cork IT Services | ☎ +353 21 490 2609 | ✉ pfl...@ucc.ie | 🌍 www.ucc.ie
