foo-* to foo-[0-9]*. This is to cause the dependencies to match only the
packages whose base package name is "foo", and not those named "foo-bar".
A concrete example is p5-Net-* matching p5-Net-DNS as well as p5-Net. Also
change dependency examples in Packages.txt to reflect this.
which would crop up before, so remove the workaround.
For the time being, we still use the version of ant and the build script which
ship with cocoon. This will be addressed soon.
Changes since cocoon-1.8 (the last pkgsrc version):
Release Notes for Cocoon 1.8.2
------------------------------
This is a minor bugfix release. Among other things, Cocoon works on JDK1.1 again,
as it should, and the XInclude processor should work correctly at any stage in the
pipeline (previously it would do nothing if invoked after certain processors).
Also, in the last two versions, optional connectors for XT, JNDI etc. were left out by
mistake from the build. This has now been fixed.
Release Notes for Cocoon 1.8.1
------------------------------
This is mainly a bugfix release - a large number of fixes and updates
have been made.
As usual, changes since previous releases are documented in docs/changes.html
Major improvements include:
* First official release of the esql logicsheet for database access in Cocoon.
Esql, which was previously an undocumented experimental feature, supports
features like integration with other logicsheets, prepared statements, and
multiple encodings. Esql now supercedes both the sql taglib and the sql
processor. IMPORTANT NOTE: Although the esql syntax has changed since Cocoon 1.8
(see the documentation), it is now expected to be fairly stable.
* The much-maligned Internet Explorer PDF bug, which caused so much gnashing of
teeth, has finally been "fixed" in Cocoon! (We think.)
See the FAQ for full details - see also samples/fo for practical examples.
* Updated installation instructions for a number of servlet engines, including Tomcat.
Cocoon now comes with walk-through installation instructions for a greater range of
platforms than ever before! This is very useful because Cocoon is a complex servlet
and therefore quite complicated to install.
* Support for FOP 0.15 (though not later versions).
Unfortunately this is rather inefficient - Cocoon 2 will address this.
FOP is an XML-to-PDF converter based at xml.apache.org. FOP 0.15 supports more
features and fixes many bugs, but it is based on a newer XSL:FO
specification than FOP 0.13, so some pages may need changing. FOP Samples
have been updated accordingly.
Other highlights include:
* New LinkEncodingProcessor to encode all links on a page
- no more messing about with response.encodeUrl all over the place
or unportable XSLT extensions!
* sax-bugfix.jar that allows you to see line numbers in parsing errors. See Installing.
* Documentation has been tweaked and improved in many places.
* Of interest to JServ users - You can now override options in cocoon.properties,
in web.xml or zone.properties.
* User-agent support for command-line mode.
* Slightly better encoding and CLASSPATH support for XSP.
* More informative error information in places.
* Numerous other bugfixes, including a workaround for a Websphere bug that prevented
Cocoon from working.
Also new since the last release is a Bug Database and a Patch Queue on the Cocoon website.
If you've posted us a bugfix and it hasn't been acted on yet, please feel free to file
a bug report - it helps us keep track! (To file a report you need to first
register, and then login.) Of course, we would like to see as much information
as possible in bug reports, as this aids in tracking down bugs and testing bugfixes.
As usual, if upgrading from an earlier release, you need to replace your
cocoon.properties file with the one supplied in
src/org/apache/cocoon/cocoon.properties,
(then make any site-specific adjustments if you have any),
or Cocoon will very likely not work at all.
Again, it may cause errors if you use old samples with a new Cocoon.
If you use the ESQL taglib, the syntax has changed between Cocoon 1.8 and Cocoon 1.8.1.
See the documentation for more details.
Convert most MESSAGE files to new syntax (${VARIABLE} gets replaced,
not @VARIABLE@, nor @@VARIABLE@@).
By default, substitutions are done for LOCALBASE, PKGNAME, PREFIX,
X11BASE, X11PREFIX; additional patterns can be added via MESSAGE_SUBST.
Clean up some packages while I'm there; add RCS tags to most MESSAGEs.
Remove some uninteresting MESSAGEs.
This cocoon version supports the latest Xerces and Xalan versions, and the next-to-latest
FOP version, so I have imported these.
Changes since cocoon-1.7.4:
Cleaned up docs, especially how-it-works and FAQ; added new questions
and answers to FAQ.
Changed XSPPage to only clone nodes where necessary, enhancing performance
for complex pages.
Changed <xsp:pi> back to use target= instead of name= in order
not to break existing users' code (which there is a lot of!).
Changed XSP docs to reflect correct usage.
Added very primitive profiler (see cocoon.properties)
Fixed some synchronization errors in Engine. You can now call a Cocoon
page from a Cocoon page, if you really want (this is inefficient and a
bad architecture, but it's possible.)
Made response taglib work on Servlet API 2.0 engines
Added xspdoc comments to esql logicsheet and added xspdoc to document convertor in the xml.apache.org site skin directory. god only knows how i'm supposed to add
it to the build procedure... help
Added error handling to esql logicsheet and documented its use in esql sample.
Added esql logicsheet
Added installation instructions for iPlanet.
Added namespace preservation to Java code-generation taglib
Added java compiler abstraction for XSP compilation (now we can use Jikes to improve XSP compilation speed).
Implemented blocking in Engine to make Cocoon run better under heavy load.
Made XSP SQL processor do array to string conversion when using a Format object on a text column
Brought XInclude processor into conformance (mostly) with the 2000-07-17 version of the working draft.
Included FP form-handling taglib for XSP.
Updated Cocoon installation case document.
Removed normalize-space from sql logicsheet's get-nested-string template
Changed turbine libraries to just include connection pool stuff, added connection pool docs
Added connection pool (and turbine) to sql logicsheet
Added support for site-absolute links in xinclude processor
Patched sql processor documentation to be fully up to date! Hoorah!
Added connection cache to sql processor
Disabled "created by cocoon" comment for HTTP HEAD requests.
Added HTTP method to Utils.encode so HEAD and GET are distinguishable
XIncludeProcessor now strips document type nodes from included documents
Added new installation case that should provide insights for newbies.
Added printer friendly skin so the documentation can now be generated to
be printer friendly when needed. (stylesheets are pretty crappy right now, but hopefully
some nice guy will improve them)
and add a new patch which fixes the behavior of the slideshow example under
a default cocoon config. The slideshow example is an incredibly cool example
of what can be done with just a little XML and XSL, but it doesn't work exactly
right under the default config.
Cocoon is a 100% pure Java publishing framework that relies on new W3C
technologies (such as DOM, XML, and XSL) to provide web content.
There is a good overview of the technologies Cocoon uses to streamline
the web publishing process at
http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/technologies.html
