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Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 21:27:16 +1100
From: Jeff Turner <jefft@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Adding components to forrest?
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On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 06:44:56PM +1100, Peter Donald wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just say I wanted to write custom generators to forrest - can I do it (without 
> modifiying the forrest install)?

Yes, just add the extra jar in ${project.lib-dir}, by default
src/documentation/lib, and add the generator to the project sitemap in
src/documentation/sitemap.xmap.  I can send an example offlist if you
like.

> Essentially what I want to do is be able to point at a java source file
> that gets processed by qdox.sourceforge.net and outputs some custom
> xml. The code is already written but only works from command line. What
> I would like to do is get it working inside forrest so that everytime I
> rebuild the descriptions of components are regenerated and crosslinked.

Sounds useful..

--Jeff

> -- 
> Cheers,
> 
> Peter Donald
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> My opinions may have changed, 
> but not the fact that I am right
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