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List:       xml-cocoon-users
Subject:    Re: Upgrading Cocoon from 2.1.7 to 2.1.9
From:       Andreas Hochsteger <e9625392 () student ! tuwien ! ac ! at>
Date:       2006-04-10 5:05:58
Message-ID: 4439E7B6.3020206 () student ! tuwien ! ac ! at
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Jason Johnston schrieb:
> Andreas Hochsteger wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there something we need to take care of, when upgrading Cocoon from
>> 2.1.7 to 2.1.9?
>>
>> These are the most important things we are currently using:
>> * FlowScript
>> * JXTemplates
>> * Cocoon Forms
>> * Portal Engine
>> * WebDAV Access (TraversableSourceDescriptionGenerator, PropfindGenerator)
>> * JNDITransformer
>> * i18n Transformer
> 
> I can't think of anything off the top of my head that is not
> backward-compatible in these components, so the best way is probably to
> just give it a try and see if anything breaks.
> 
> Definitely browse the detailed changelog at
> http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/changes.html to see what changes were made
> to the components you are using.
> 
> One thing in particular you should take a look at using is the new
> template block.  It provides a rewritten version of JXTemplate that has
> some performance improvements and new features, and should be
> backward-compatible so your existing templates will still work.
> 
> Another change might be that I think in 2.1.7 you had to keep copies of
> the forms-*-styling.xsl stylesheets and CForms-related CSS and JS files
> within your webapp directory structure to have access to them.  Now
> those resources are packaged within the cocoon forms .jar file, and can
> be referenced via the resource:// pseudo-protocol.  See the cforms
> samples for how to reference them.
> 
> And of course there are plenty of new features like CForms AJAX support
> that you can integrate if you choose.  But I think for the most part
> things are backward-compatible.  Hopefully others will pipe in if
> they've experienced otherwise.
> 
> --Jason

Thanks, Jason, for your detailed answer!
We will definitely try to upgrade this month and I'll report any 
problems that may arise.

Andreas

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