DBPrism began as a Servlet replacement for Oracle Web Server using Servlet technology. The first two releases where named OWSKiller by the author Martin Kuzela.
Release 3.0.x was developed by Marcelo Ochoa and when it was connected to Apache Cocoon framework it was renamed to DBPrism by suggestion of Steve Muench at Oracle Corp. to be less offensive. DBPrism 1.x branches include a DBProducer component that connects DBPrism to Apache Cocoon framework 1.x architecture at the production stage. As an extended example of working with XML technologies a first CMS was developed for chapter 21 of the book Professional XML Database by Wrox Press.
Branch 2.0.x is based on Cocoon 2.x architecture, it also includes a second generation of DBPrism CMS because Cocoon's 2 concepts are very different from its previous release. This CMS has a continuos evolution using the best innovation of the technologies provided by Oracle Databases and Cocoon framework.