Unraveling Cocoon

When we first came up with the concept of a Cocoon book, “Unraveling Cocoon” was to be the title. However, as the concept evolved and we discussed it with our publisher and technical editors, we decided against using this title for two reasons.

The first reason was that somebody mentioned that if you unravel something, you destroy it. And we certainly did not want to destroy Cocoon. Secondly, we thought this book should be more than just a developer’s guide to Cocoon. We wanted to motivate readers by using XML technologies to build different types of applications and show how Cocoon can make this process easier by taking care of the hard work for you.

This last chapter has hopefully given you some idea of Cocoon’s ongoing development. ...

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