This year I had the honour of doing my second keynote presentation for a Cocoon GetTogether. On popular demand I was talking about Cocoon 2.2 and the developer’s motivations behind all the new stuff:

• Spring 2.0 as component container
• the Servlet-Service framework that establishes contracts in modular web applications
  (no dependency on Cocoon core – easily resuseable outside the Cocoon world)
• Easier configuration using the Spring Configurator. There is no need for patching XML configuration files.
  (no dependency on Cocoon core – easily resuseable outside the Cocoon world)
• Easier development
  • three Maven 2 archetypes available to give  your Cocoon 2.2 project a jump start
  • run any Cocoon 2.2  block using the Cocoon Maven plugin which allows reload of any resources, also Java classes and Spring bean defintions

Here is my presentation as a PDF.