The Cocoon Architecture in Detail
Before we begin, let’s look at a figure that gives an overview of the Cocoon architecture. It might help you to refer to Figure 6.1 when reading about the individual building blocks that make up Cocoon in the following sections. This figure is actually a simplified view of the architecture, because the dependencies of the components contained in Cocoon are more complicated than this figure shows. We will get into more detail as we progress through this book. Imagine that each chapter is a layer of Cocoon that you are slowly peeling away to see more and more of what is inside.
Figure 6.1. The big picture of Cocoon.
Cocoon is made up of several blocks of functionality. Starting at the top of Figure 6.1, you ...
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