On Jul 1, 2009, at 10:45 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected] > wrote:
> > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf >> Of Vincent Massol >> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:34 PM >> To: XWiki Developers >> Subject: Re: [xwiki-devs] Plugin initialization >> >> Hi Glenn, >> >> On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:54 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I seem to recall some discussion about automatic plugin startup >>> being planned. One of the really nice things about confluence is >>> that you can add plugins with just a jar file and don't have to >>> edit .xml configuration files. This also makes upgrades of either >>> the plugin or wiki easier as everything is in the jar. >>> >>> >>> >>> Was anything like this added for 2.0 or possibly planned in the near >>> future? >> >> Yes definitely. This is how it works already. Plugins are the old way >> of extending xwiki. The new way is to use components. For example if >> you implement a Macro component and put it in WEB-INF/lib it'll be >> automatically available. >> > > > How about a servlet? Is there a similar way to do this without > editing web.xml? I suppose if there was something I could put into > the jar that would automatically get an init method of some kind > then I could in theory add my servlet url with java code. The servlet spec *mandates* a web.xml (except in Servlet 3.0 which just came out) so there's no way to have a servlet without a web.xml entry. However why do you need a servlet? It's not required in most cases I can think of since you can have a component instead? Maybe you could tell us your use case so that we could help you better? > I noticed my Macro component didn't get instantiated/initialized > until it was referenced. Yes, that's the default. What's your need? We could add the feature to load some specific components on startup in the future if there's a need. Right now you can receive the startup event and do some specific init at that time. > > Are there other types of Components I should be aware of? Not sure I understand. Everything is a component and can be replaced or extended (except for old code not yet migrated to components). Do you have a specific use case? Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
