Cocoon Happenings
This [Editor’s note: I spilled a can of Pepsi just as I was starting to write this. Half a can was lost to the carpet in the disaster.] has been an interesting few months “away” from the Cocoon community. There’s a bunch of neat stuff currently happening and “in the works” as they say.
Cocoon is moving towards a new core kernel, graciously donated by Pier Fumagalli’s employer, VNU. The whole thing was started by this thread about Avalon. Hopefully the new kernel will simplify component development and lower the barrier to custom components. And who knows, we might even get a speedup with the lighter framework! :)
We also have Java Continuations under the ASF license! This paves the way for cool stuff like Flowscript written in Java, or even Groovy (!!!!)
Finally, Upayavira has implemented nestable input modules in the sitemap! If there was a URLEncodingInputModule, you could easily nest it to ensure parameters were properly “URL-Encoded”: {urlencode:{request-param:foo}}
Talk about the future of Cocoon, Real Blocks(tm) and C3 has also been discussed on the development list lately.
I feel so out of it, even after being gone for two months at most! Things sure move fast.