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> From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

> 
> > * Probably some light-weight mechanism for bundling up a set of 
> jars as an
> > extension, without needing to mess with their manifests.  Maybe 
> add them to
> > a subdirectory of ext/ and use the subdir name as the extension name.
> 
> This starts to make things feel a bit icky for me because it 
> means the person 
> who installs the products has to know how the implementors wanted it laid 
> out. Compare this to current mechanism where you cna just drop in a jar 
> anywhere on extensions on path and it just works.
> 

Yep, fair enough.  We can skip this one as a default.  The point is simply that 
we should allow different types of extension repositories to be used, under the 
user's control, and provide a few useful implementations.  If someone wants to 
use a non-standard implementation with their particular install, well, that's 
fine.


> > As far as the classloader hierarchy goes, I'd like to try using
> > multi-parent classloaders, to see what grief that causes.
> 
> I have some code for that over in phoenix land - not checked in but ... I 
> coul dpossibly refactor it or at lkeast give it as an example of 
> how to do 
> things. I may check it in today if not then just go ahead and do 
> it whichever 
> way you please ;) (I say this because I may find out phoenixs one 
> is a mess ;)
>

If you can check something it, cool.  No rush, though.  I'm still trying to get 
Path untangled enough to turn it into an interface.


Adam


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