Refactor Feature loading and enable runtime inclusion
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Key: WOOKIE-210
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WOOKIE-210
Project: Wookie
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Scott Wilson
Features currently consist of a Java class that is complied at build time, plus
a number of js and css resources. These are then installed and persisted using
the ServerFeature bean and queried at runtime.
However, there is no reason to require such a complex process for creating,
building and installing features, and I propose instead we follow Shindig's
approach and create an XML-based loading process.
This would use a feature.xml file to configure each Feature object, e.g.:
<feature>
<name>http://jquerymobile.com</name>
<script src="jquery.mobile-1.0a4-patched.min.js"/>
<script src="jquery-1.5.min.js"/>
<stylesheet src="jquery.mobile-1.0a4-patched.min.css"/>
</feature>
This can then be loaded and transformed into an IFeature implementation class
at runtime.
The Wave feature is a little more complex, but could be handled more simply as
an exceptional case where the WaveAPIImpl <IFeature> class is added explicitly
to the feature loader.
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