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[eclipse.org-membership-at-large] Project Declaration: Lepido, a Cocoon tooling project
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As per the Eclipse Development Process, we are notifying the Eclipse
Membership-at-Large of the intent of Anywhere Technologies to propose
Lepido, a Cocoon tooling project as part of the Technology PMC.
A brief description of the project is below. A project proposal will be
posted on www.eclipse.org <http://www.eclipse.org/> in a week or so.
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*Project Declaration for "Lepido"*
Apache Cocoon is a top-level project of the Apache Software Foundation.
It is a web application
framework built around the concepts of XML processing pipelines and
component-based
application development. The project was started in 1999 and has since
then grown both in
features and user base, and is now widely used by a lot of people for
mission-critical web sites.
Apache Cocoon uses a lot of XML-related technologies and XML-based
configuration files.
Although very powerful and efficient once mastered, the framework has a
steep learning curve,
and having dedicated tools to help newcomers getting started and
experienced users to be
more productive would attract much more people to this innovative product.
The purpose of the Lepido project is therefore to build extensible
frameworks and exemplary
tools on top of Eclipse for developing web applications with Apache
Cocoon. These tools will
include wizards to quickly lay out a project structure, dedicated
editors for the various XML files
involved in application development, and runtime tools such as debuggers
or profilers. Lepido
will be implemented using the infrastructure provided by the Web Tools
Platform.
* Lepido stands for “lepidoptera”, which is the scientific name for
butterflies. As you certainly
know, bufferflies come out of cocoons! So Lepido is there to help you
getting the best out of
Apache Cocoon!
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*Bjorn Freeman-Benson*
Technical Director, Open Source Process and Infrastructure
Eclipse Foundation <http://www.eclipse.org/>
voice: 971-327-7323 (PST, GMT-9)
email: bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
