Cocoon GetTogether 2007

Pictures at Flickr

Slides/recordings will be on the Cocoon GT site (eventually)

Day 1 and 2: Hackathon

I arrived well after lunch on day 1 and have little to report from it for that reason, there was a vivid discussion on what to do with deprecated modules, and which ought to be deprecated.

Dinner was in Aricci(sp?) several kilometers outside of town, but thanks to the traffic we were quite late. To make one thing clear: not all Italian food is pasta and salads, this was (very) salty and fat sausages, cheeses, fried pig (porchetta), procioutto (yummy ham), tripe and bread. Plenty of wine, laughs and singing too.

Day two: an interesting discussion on Cocoon and REST (and the usual quarrel/debate about just what REST is), how to market/push cocoon and improve its marketability...

Day 3: Conference

Hands on Cocoon, Francesco Chicchiriccò

Integrating Cocoon (2.1.x) with OpenSSO, publishing JSR-168 portlets.

A bare experience with hands on Cocoon. Customizing a Content Delivery System at Ancona's Municipality for Web, e-mail and JSR-168 portlet publishing; integrating with OpenSSO framework for Single Sign-On and identity services infrastructure; broadcasdting for Digital Terrestrial Television.

Create your website in 5 minutes with the Cocoon Project Wizard, Jasha Joachimsthal

For 2.1.x, not 2.2, HIPPOs CMS factory.

XSLT and XPath - without the pain!, Bertrand Delacretaz

Patterns and best practices for XSLT, summarized: XPATH is the key, use more templates with complex xpath-matxchers instead of procedural constructs, sanity check the root node...

DAX - Where flowscript and XSLT meet, Lars Trieloff

Mapping from XSLT to Java-class, Javascript-class, comparison to E4X. XSLT for XSLT-haters, < and > hidden away. Not a complete mapping yet.

Use more Java!Cocoon 2.2 with 2.1 pieces, Martijn C. Vos

How to use/upgrade exitsing large Cocoon 2.1 projects with 2.2, bypassing Maven and much of the other new stuff.

Bye bye Avalon: an introduction to OSGi, Bertrand Delacretaz/Carsten Ziegeler

A history of Avalon and comparison with OSGi, how to use OSGi for Avalon-experts.

Hot deployable Cocoon blocks with OSGi, Daniel Fagerstrom

Didn't pay attention as was discussing something with my neighbor.

What about building your webapp from ready made building blocks that you juts download and drop into your running Cocoon? This without even needing to retsart anything. Ongoing work on making Cocoon run in an OSGi container makes this possible. The talk will give a short introduction to OSGi (the plugin architecture that Eclipse is based on), Spring-OSGi, and the architecture of the Cocoon-OSGi integration. There will also be a demo.

Atomized Cocoon, Ugo Cei

ATOM is both a protocol and a feed-format, this talk was about the protocol, which is REST-based.

The Atom publishing Protocol (AtomPub) is arguably one of the best embodiments of the principles of the REST architectural style. An open standard for publishing and managing Web resources is in place and and successfully employed by Google's Data API and IBM's Lotus Connections software, among other applications. ...

Mindquarry - Cocoon-based Collaboration Software, Lars Trieloff

Break my site: Practical Stress Testing and Tuning of Cocoon Applications

Stress-testing of cocoon-sites using JMeter, and techniques for doing this properly, like taking screenshots of JMeter and the logs when something interesting happens.

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