--- karthik Guru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I needed access only to the metadata ( from Qdox)
> for the fileset that i selected. I wonder if there
> s'd be a default plugin that provides access to the
> metadata of all the files selected by fileset and
> accepts a template?. Basically it s'd take the
> location of the template from the build file instead
> of the usual expected location. 

Most plugins derive from base classes contained in
xdoclet / generama. That's place where this
functionality resides


> Does it make sense to have something like that?
> Ofcourse writing one is pretty trivial and that is
> what i did. Do you think it makes sense to ship a
> plugin like that?  Also does it make sense to allow
> for overriding of the template file / location from
> outside (ie from build file)? 

You mean like template module from XD1 ?  Maybe it
makes sense.  
> Say there is some problem with ejb-jar.xml
> generation template, I can copy the existing one
> into my folder, modify it and run the EbJarXML
> plugin against the modified one instead of the one
> it shipped with?

I think this discussion sall be taken to
xdoclet-plugins-interest list. There are more people. 

regards,

----[ Konstantin Pribluda http://www.pribluda.de ]----------------
Still using XDoclet 1.x?  XDoclet 2 is released and of production quality.
check it out: http://xdoclet.codehaus.org


                
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