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10Web applications bundled with BES
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About Cocoon
This section describes the Apache Cocoon and Apache Struts for which BES includes
support. For more information about Apache, go the 3rd Party Documentation.
The Cocoon servlet is pre-installed in the Tomcat web container upon which the
Borland web container is based. The Struts framework is also pre-installed in the
Borland web container.
For more information about the Borland web container, go to Chapter 4, “Web
components.”
Cocoon is a web publishing framework that renders XML data into a number of formats
including HTML, WML, PDF, and the like. These formats are based on a set of
properties provided by an XSL stylesheet.
All BES product offerings include the Cocoon servlet pre-installed in the Borland web
container. The web.xml file contains specifications for the Cocoon servlet, which is preconfigured
to point to the cocoon properties file in the WEB-INF directory of the context
under which Cocoon is invoked. However, you can change this specification to point to
another location. Additionally, the web.xml file includes a mapping for “*.xml” directing
any such file to be processed by Cocoon. This mapping can be modified or deleted.
An unmodified copy of the properties file is included as part of the Cocoon webapp
(cocoon.war) distributed with BES. You can customize this file to create your own
cocoon.properties file. This unmodified cocoon.properties file is compiled in with the
Borland web container. As the default properties file, it is used whenever the file
specified in the Cocoon servlet definition cannot be found.
Cocoon is an open-source product distributed by the Apache Software Foundation. For
additional information about Cocoon, see the web site: http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/
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