I'm looking at making the geronimo plugin and deployment support in
the console into a console plugin so I have been looking at how the
console plugin system works. I'm confused by a couple of interfaces
that look to me as if they are not useful and an apparent lack of a
dependency.
AFAICT AdminConsoleExtension and PlutoAccessInterface are only used
inside AdminConsoleExtensionGBean, which implements both interfaces.
I don't understand how this can be useful.
Also, AdminConsoleExtensionGBean uses PortalContainerServicesGBean
but looks it up in the kernel directly rather than having a
dependency on it. There are some notes in e.g. console-jetty plan
that the AdminConsoleExtensionGBean doesn't work there but I have to
wonder if this is a consequence of the web apps being starting in the
wrong order and the lack of this dependency.
I also wonder if using the web container to start spring and pluto is
really the best plan, as it leaves PortalContainerServicesGBean
started but without its info for some time.
I plan to investigate what happens if I remove the interfaces and use
a dependency. I might look into alternate ways to start pluto. Any
advice from those who have navigated this before would be very welcome.
thanks
david jencks
