Do you mean by facility orthogonal structures which could be implemented
as aspects? 
What do you mean by plugable lifecycle stages, I am aware of the
different component interfaces, but how, when, from where would such a
new lifecycle be loaded and activated?
 
cheers, Andreas

> The recent work on the seperation of the repository facility from the
> internals of merlin opens up a bunch of possibilities for scaling down
> merlin.  For example - the current merlin runtime needs a bunch of
stuff
> to handle things like XML configurations are so forth - however - much
> of this could be parameterized - so for example one could declare a
> facility to handle configuration, maybe another facility for logging,
> and another for assumbly.  Merlin could then bring these in
> dynamically.  In such a scenario the core merlin system would be
rather
> small - but we are not there yet.  There is still a lot to do in both
> kernel facility management and plugable lifecycle stage handlers.
> 
> If I was doing this from scratch - I would start with
avalon-repository,
> avalon-util, avalon-meta as the basic platform and maybe leverage
> avalon-composition but focussed on serialized descriptors (i.e. no
> runtime xml).
> 
> Cheers, Steve.
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