Ross, I was excited to see the addition of xconf capability into plugins. See http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=227190&view=rev.
I rebuild cocoon with authentication and session blocks, and added the jars to 'plugin/lib' and the xconf files from the 'cocoon-2.2.0-dev\build\webapp\WEB-INF\xconf' to 'plugin/conf'. This error message was returned: BUILD FAILED D:\apps\forrest-0.8\plugins\build.xml:339: The following error occurred while executing this line: D:\apps\forrest-0.8\main\targets\plugins.xml:348: The following error occurred while executing this line: D:\apps\forrest-0.8\main\targets\plugins.xml:370: The following error occurred while executing this line: D:\apps\forrest-0.8\main\targets\plugins.xml:390: Not a valid xpatch file: D:\apps\forrest-0.8\build\plugins\com.batlin.forrest.plugin.internal.profile d\conf\cocoon-authentication-fw.xconf So am bit confused, on two counts: 1. if xpatch is required, how do I generate this file? 2. why are we using xpatch, when the current cocoon.xconf uses includes, can't we do the same here? Many thanks, Alex.