In an effort to understand more about Avalon, Merlin and Magic, I decided to try creating my own component from scratch. Basically, I just created a very basic component similar to the HelloComponent in the tutorial. However, I created it in my own Eclipse workspace area in a separate part of the filesystem from the Avalon sources.
I guessed that my project would depend on avalon-framework-api and the avalon-meta-tools plugin. So on creating the index.xml file, I found that I needed to import another index.xml file which defined these dependencies. Specifically: <import href="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/avalon/trunk/runtime/index.xml"/> I also noted that this file imports another file: <import index="../tools/index.xml" href="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/avalon/trunk/tools/index.xml"/> Now I began thinking that what if my filesystem did contain another file "../tools/index.xml" then presumably ant would import this first before attempting to download it using the href link. So, is this the correct way to arrange the imports from the index.xml file? Is there a generic file that defines all the dependencies in Avalon which does not bind me to a particular layout that I can include instead of the one used below? My index.xml file looks like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <index> <import href="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/avalon/trunk/runtime/index.xml"/ <project basedir="echo"> <info> <group>test/echo</group> <name>test-echo</name> </info> <dependencies> <include key="avalon-framework-api" runtime="false"/> </dependencies> <plugins> <include key="avalon-meta-tools"/> </plugins> </project> </index> My component does work with the above setup. I am just interested to find out how it should be done. Specifically, how to include information which allows ant/Magic to get the dependencies and plugins the component needs. Regards. Mark. Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
