The following comment has been added to this issue:

     Author: Bastian Bowe
    Created: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 7:26 AM
       Body:
Allright I would like to give it a try.
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        Key: FOR-439
    Summary: Allow plugins to register new cocoon components
       Type: Improvement

     Status: Unassigned
   Priority: Minor

    Project: Forrest
 Components: 
             Plugins (general issues)

   Assignee: 
   Reporter: Bastian Bowe

    Created: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 6:35 AM
    Updated: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 7:26 AM

Description:
Plugins are not able to add new components or parts to the xconf. A concrete use case could be to add

<component-instance
class="foo.cocoon.components.modules.input.SpecialLinkModule"
      logger="core.modules.mapper" name="foo"/>

to <input-modules/>

A possible implementation could copy <FORREST_HOME>/main/webapp/WEB-INF/xconf/forrest-core.xconf to <project.dir>/build/tmp and apply for all plugins ${plugin.dir}/internal.xconf or something using ant's the xpatch task. http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/XPatchTaskUsage. My given idea might be invalid as I've never used xpatch but something similar should be possible.

At least it should be possible to copy the xconf to a temporary location and let the plugin's build.xml use xpatch by itself to allow arbitary customizations. Please keep in mind that "forrest webapp" still has to be functional.


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