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- Here's a non exhaustive but typical list of Cocoon use-cases, including
- some weird ones to show Cocoon's flexiblity...
- <ul>
- <li>Convert XML documents to HTML for publishing</li>
- <li>Generate the presentation and navigation aspects of web sites</li>
- <li>Generate HTML, PDF, RTF documents and images off-line</li>
- <li>Acquire XML data over network connections, process and redistribute it</li>
- <li>Act as a front-end for SOAP or XML-RPC backend components</li>
- <li>Implement a complex HTML forms-based application which saves data in XML</li>
- <li>Build a query and navigation front-end for a relational or XML database</li>
- <li>Generate customized HTML pages depending on the type of client: different browsers, mobile devices, etc.</li>
- <li>Dynamically generate images out of XML data</li>
- <li>Generate MIDI music files from SAP data</li>
- <li>Convert structured text files to XML and HTML</li>
- <li>Build a secure authentication-based web site</li>
- <li>Build a multi-language website using XML dictionaries to translate menus and messages</li>
- <li>Build web portals using the latest JSR-168 standard</li>
- <li>Write web applications with little code and no state management code using the Flow subsystem</li>
- <li>Allow java objects to be edited from a WAP device</li>
- </ul>
- The combination of components available in Cocoon applies
- to widely varied types of applications. This explains why more and more companies are making Cocoon
- a strategic component of their toolset.
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- <p>
- See also the list
- of Cocoon features at
- <a href="http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/features.html">http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/features.html</a>
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