Hi, I have accidentally deleted this thread from my mail box. I am not sure how this happened when I save a draft of my reply.
So, continuing with that thread... 1) Sebastien suggested that I check out a couple of scenarios merging definitions.xml files using the XMLAppendingTransformer. As suspected by him, the transformer messes up namespaces. 2) Moving to the Provider option, I wanted to write a provider that reads the definitions.xml document and returns the model. With this I had quite a bit of trouble placing this provider - it could best be in the definitions-xml module. But then to instantiate the SCADefnDocProcessor I need the STaxProcessorExtensionPoint. I could have this extracted in the Provider if I passed around the ExtensionPointRegistry to the Provider. But the ExtensionPointRegistry interface is in the core module. So what seemed best as of now is only a SCADefinitionsFileLocationProvider thro which the various modules can return the path to the definitions.xml file within them. Meanwhile, I have written a simple shade transformer that will aggregate the definitions.xml and add a wrapper element <tuscany:definitions> in our distribution bundle. I have added some code in the SCADefinitionsDocProcessor to deal with this wrapper element. I am in the process of checking this out in a full distro and then will commit. Thanks - Venkat
