Yee haw, it's working!
The conversion from merlin 2.0 to 2.1 was not too bad, the main issue
was the <block> syntax. The steps I had to take (that I can remember!)
are:
1. Stripped all the Avalon: sections out of the manifests
2. Restructured the distribution layout to match merlin 2.1's bootstrap
loader layout -- kind of a pain, but with luck this will pay off
bigtime if it works with Web Start! Not to mention it's a lot more
elegant than the extension mechanism (imho).
3. Copied the application-specific contents of my old kernel.xml file
into block.xml and made the necessary modifications. This will be
trivial when the doc is complete :)
4. Created a new jar which contains nothing but the BLOCK-INF/block.xml
file and which has a Block: + Block-Package: section in the
manifest.
5. Created a blocks.xml file that refers to the new block jar (this one
is easy)
I think that's all I did. The logging output and error detection are
significantly improved.
I'm not making use of any of the 'interesting' features of merlin yet,
although I have hopes.... too much to do!
Regards,
Gary
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