I've got Cocoon 1.8 up and running well on:
FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE with Linux emulation
Apache 1.3.14 using mod_jk.so
(boy, does -that- doc need work!)
Tomcat 3.2.1
Blackdown Linux port of jdk-1.2.2
Wish you all thebest of luck, and looking forward the
Cocoon 2 !
- erik