Applications

Cocoon is a complete system for building Web applications. It’s a good candidate for Web applications that have multiple formats or multiple language requirements. Cocoon’s sitemap facility makes it easy to break your application into separate sections or modules. The rich set of Cocoon components saves you time by providing the building blocks you need to assemble an application rapidly.

The Apache XML project has created the Forrest project (http://xml.apache.org/forrest), which is a Cocoon-based system for generating project documentation Websites. Forrest leverages Cocoon’s functionality to make it easy to generate documentation and keep it up to date. It also provides support for generating offline and printed versions of documentation Websites.