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Posted to users@cocoon.apache.org by Erik Bruchez <er...@bruchez.org> on 2003/07/21 20:03:37 UTC
[ANN] OXF 2.0 Released
OXF is an XML transformation framework built on top of J2EE
technologies.
Noteworthy changes in version 2.0 include:
- New Web Application Controller
- Significant XForms enhancements
- Struts Portlets support
- SQL Processor enhancements
- New JavaServer Faces integration
- Pluggable XSLT and JAXP transformers
- Configurable serializers
- Image Server enhancements
- LDAP processor
- Scheduler processor
- XQuery and XUpdate support
- Charts, PDF, and Excel processors
- Email and Instant Messaging processors
OXF version 2.0 is available immediately. More information on OXF, as
well as a 30-day evaluation version are available at
www.orbeon.com/oxf
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Re: [ANN] OXF 2.0 Released
Posted by Olivier Billard <ob...@rennes.jouve.fr>.
And :
"OXF is now free for non-commercial use and *costs $495/CPU otherwise*, payable at deployment"
--
Olivier
Erik Bruchez wrote:
> Hi Tony,
>
> OXF does not use any code from Cocoon (although it uses many other
> Apache projects, listed in our README), but it is a framework that
> conceptually shares many things with Cocoon. The main differences with
> Cocoon are:
>
> 1. XPL is more generic than the Cocoon sitemap. XPL is a simple,
> declarative, implementation-agnostic language that allows the
> orchestration of XML components. It features built-in teeing and
> aggregation, conditionals, validation with W3C Schemas and Relax
> NG, and sub-pipelines. As is the case with Cocoon, the
> implementation is all SAX-based.
>
> 2. The OXF Web Application Controller (WAC) provides declarative
> worklow for your entire application. It also explicitly integrates
> with a server-side subset of XForms and a clean Model / View /
> Controller architecture.
>
> 3. For Web applications and Web publishing, you can use OXF standalone
> or use the native integration with Struts (with or without JSP) and
> JavaServer Faces. OXF does not support XSP.
>
> 4. The OXF core was designed to be 100% independent from any
> Web-related applications. You can embed it within client
> applications, command-line tasks, etc. From an initial design point
> of view, this is unlike Cocoon which was primarily designed as a
> Web publishing framework.
>
> In terms of overlap, in Cocoon (1) and (2) are more or less under the
> scope of the sitemap (Cocoon 2.0.4), as well as the upcoming flow
> efforts. (3) covers the Cocoon actions and XSP. We think that in
> general OXF provide more flexibility and modularity than Cocoon, but
> of course that's ultimately the users' decision ;-) Note that the
> product is free for non-commercial use.
>
> Incidently, we released an Open Source XML RenderKit for JSF. This
> could be integrated with Cocoon:
>
> http://www.orbeon.com/model2x/xml-renderkit
>
> I hope this clarifies things a little bit.
>
> -Erik
>
> Tony Collen wrote:
> > Erik Bruchez wrote:
> >
> >> OXF is an XML transformation framework built on top of J2EE
> >> technologies.
> >
> >
> > <snip/>
> >
> >
> > Pardon my ignorance, but how is this Cocoon-related? Is this built
> > on top of Cocoon? Is it just a repackaged (and more expensive)
> > Cocoon?
> >
> > Tony
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Re: [ANN] OXF 2.0 Released
Posted by Erik Bruchez <er...@bruchez.org>.
Hi Tony,
OXF does not use any code from Cocoon (although it uses many other
Apache projects, listed in our README), but it is a framework that
conceptually shares many things with Cocoon. The main differences with
Cocoon are:
1. XPL is more generic than the Cocoon sitemap. XPL is a simple,
declarative, implementation-agnostic language that allows the
orchestration of XML components. It features built-in teeing and
aggregation, conditionals, validation with W3C Schemas and Relax
NG, and sub-pipelines. As is the case with Cocoon, the
implementation is all SAX-based.
2. The OXF Web Application Controller (WAC) provides declarative
worklow for your entire application. It also explicitly integrates
with a server-side subset of XForms and a clean Model / View /
Controller architecture.
3. For Web applications and Web publishing, you can use OXF standalone
or use the native integration with Struts (with or without JSP) and
JavaServer Faces. OXF does not support XSP.
4. The OXF core was designed to be 100% independent from any
Web-related applications. You can embed it within client
applications, command-line tasks, etc. From an initial design point
of view, this is unlike Cocoon which was primarily designed as a
Web publishing framework.
In terms of overlap, in Cocoon (1) and (2) are more or less under the
scope of the sitemap (Cocoon 2.0.4), as well as the upcoming flow
efforts. (3) covers the Cocoon actions and XSP. We think that in
general OXF provide more flexibility and modularity than Cocoon, but
of course that's ultimately the users' decision ;-) Note that the
product is free for non-commercial use.
Incidently, we released an Open Source XML RenderKit for JSF. This
could be integrated with Cocoon:
http://www.orbeon.com/model2x/xml-renderkit
I hope this clarifies things a little bit.
-Erik
Tony Collen wrote:
> Erik Bruchez wrote:
>
>> OXF is an XML transformation framework built on top of J2EE
>> technologies.
>
>
> <snip/>
>
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but how is this Cocoon-related? Is this built
> on top of Cocoon? Is it just a repackaged (and more expensive)
> Cocoon?
>
> Tony
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Re: [ANN] OXF 2.0 Released
Posted by Tony Collen <co...@umn.edu>.
Erik Bruchez wrote:
> OXF is an XML transformation framework built on top of J2EE
> technologies.
<snip/>
Pardon my ignorance, but how is this Cocoon-related? Is this built on
top of Cocoon? Is it just a repackaged (and more expensive) Cocoon?
Tony
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