Adding components to an instance of OFBiz

[Ruth Hoffman]

Hello All:
I'm a big fan of OFBiz - nice job on the Apache site, BTW. 
Congratulations - it is World class!

I've been using OFBiz off and on for a few years now for a number of 
different projects. Recently, I had a requirement to add a custom 
component to the application section of the framework. After a brief 
search of the mailing lists (I have been away from the OFBiz 
collaborative tools for sometime) and documentation I have the following 
question:

Is there an automatic way to add a component to the framework - or is 
this still a manual process? I don't see any obvious webtool or other 
mechanism for doing this through OFBiz.

Regards,
Ruth Hoffman