The document discusses Cocoon, an open source content management system and web development framework. It describes how Cocoon was used to build various websites, portals and applications for clients including municipalities and broadcast companies. Features of Cocoon mentioned include content delivery, customizations, search, authentication, single sign-on, forms, pagination and templating.

1. Hands on Cocoon
Cocoon GT 2007 - Roma
Francesco Chicchiriccò – CEO at ePOSSE
ilgrosso@eposse.it

2. Cocoon? Nice to meet you...
Late 2004, Ancona – Marche – Italy
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Gianugo and I: “what's that apple?”
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Started hearing archaic and magic
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words: sitemaps, pipelines, generators,
transformers, ....

3. CMS @ Municipality of Ancona
Focused on Content Delivery
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Customizations XHTML
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18 websites
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RSS
3 JSR-168 portlets
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WebDAV
3 newsletters
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PDF
multi-taxonomies
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search engine
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TXT
...
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5. Enterprise Portal @ ePOSSE
Authentication / Authorization on LDAP
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Deploying existing JSR-168 portlets
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Developing small coplets
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Great application coplets!!!
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Raw Single Sign-On
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7. Interoperating with OpenSSO
Open web Single Sign-On
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core identity services to implement SSO
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either on LANs or on the Internet (SAML)
Java and PHP client library
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Check it out at
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https://opensso.dev.java.net/
Make it working with Cocoon:
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transformers, flowscript,
authentication-fw

8. Administration tools @ Tuscany
Putting together Cocoon forms
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(validation, input widgets), pagination,
templating, search engine, ...

9. Broadcasting DTT @ Abruzzo
DTT normally involves skills on MHP,
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DVB, and other technologies
SofiaDigital maintains a special MHP
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xlet, a browser implementing a subset
of XHTML and CSS
Cocoon can play as a content producer
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for such a platform

10. Broadcasting DTT @ Abruzzo
Modulator
Object Carousel
Return channel
Set Top Box