Cocoon: Building XML Applications - Softcover

Ziegeler, Carsten; Langham, Matthew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0735712352 ISBN 13: 9780735712355

Publisher: Sams, 2002

Synopsis

Cocoon: Building XML Applications is the guide to the Apache Cocoon project. The book contains the much needed documentation on the Cocoon project, but it does not limit itself to just being a developer¿s handbook. The book motivates the use of XML and XML software (in particular open source software). It contains everything a beginner needs to get going with Cocoon as well as the detailed information a developer needs to develop new and exciting components to extend the XML publishing framework. Although each chapter builds upon the previous ones, the book is designed so that the chapters can also be read as individual guides to the topics they discuss. Varied "hands-on" examples are used to make the underlying concepts and technologies absolutely clear to anyone starting out with Cocoon. Chapters that detail the author¿s experience in building Internet applications are used to embed Cocoon into the "real world" and complete the picture. mdMatthew Langham and Carsten Ziegeler

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About the Author

About the AuthorsAbout the Authors Matthew Langham was born in England but has lived in Germany since 1976. He has worked in the IT business since the mid-1980s. He wrote his first book on the Internet in 1993 and has since published several articles on the Net and related themes. He currently leads the open-source group at S&N AG, a software company in Paderborn, Germany. Carsten Ziegeler is the chief architect of the open-source competence center at S&N AG, Paderborn, Germany. His main focus is on web application design and object-oriented component development. He has participated in several open-source projects and is actively involved in various Apache communities. In 2001, he took over the role of release manager for the Apache Cocoon project. He has been a committer on the project since 2000 and played a major role in designing the current architecture. About the Technical Reviewers These reviewers contributed their considerable hands-on expertise to the entire development process for Cocoon: Building XML Applications. As this book was being written, these dedicated professionals reviewed all the material for technical content, organization, and flow. Their feedback was critical to ensuring that this book fits our readers' needs for the highest-quality technical information. Marcus Crafter is from Australia and currently works as a software engineer for a Melbourne-based company, ManageSoft Corporation. He has worked extensively with Internet technologies since 1996. He lives in Frankfurt, Germany, where he has been actively involved in various open-source/free software projects, including Apache Cocoon, for the past three years. Torsten Curdt is the CTO of dff internet & medien GmbH, Göttingen, Germany. He started out as a programmer in the 1980s and has been active in the IT business since the early 1990s. As dff's main software architect, he has been around since Cocoon version 1.7. He became a committer to the Cocoon project in 2001 and is involved in several other open-source software projects. © Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

From the Back Cover

Cocoon: Building XML Applications is a comprehensive hands-on guide to the Apache open source project Cocoon. Cocoon is an XML publishing platform already being used by companies such as Hewlett Packard and institutions such as NASA to build their next generation of Internet architectures. Developers, administrators and managers will find this detailed resource an invaluable tool whether you are looking for introductory information on XML / XSL technologies, starting out with the open source platform or seeking a guide to extending Cocoon with additional components. This book combines the knowledge of a key Cocoon developer with the experience of someone who has been building and writing about Internet applications since the early 1990¿s. It begins by explaining the advantages of XML, then guides the reader through the process of setting up Cocoon and details the architecture from a user¿s as well as a developer¿s point of view. The varied examples, from the typical Hello World program to a complete news portal also help to provide an insight into applying open source software to ¿real world¿ problems. A detailed reference section documents the various components available in Cocoon and provides the developer with the necessary API documentation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sams
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0735712352
• ISBN 13: 9780735712355
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 504