multiple taglibcontent.xml files / applications using their own escapers

[Simon Groenewolt]

hi,

Today I stumbled upon a confusing situation involving an application 
(Forum) that has a jar that contains it's own taglibcontent.xml file. 
This file was found (by the classloader) before the taglibcontent.xml in 
mmbase-taglib.jar was found and caused the new 'links' escaper not to be 
found anymore.

I now have a conflicting situation: the mmbase-taglib.jar contains some 
needed settins, and the mmbase-mmbob.jar (the jar holding the Forum 
application) _also_ contains some needed settings, but there is no way 
to use both, and no way to know which one will be found first (unless 
you know the way the appserver's classloader works).

Probably a system where applications can define their own extensions for 
the taglibcontent.xml file is needed.

I think that if you want to signal possible versioning conflicts with 
multiple taglibcontent.xml's in the current situation it's probably best 
to seal the org.mmbase.bridge.jsp.taglib.resources package, this will at 
least give you an error while starting mmbase instead of an error 
somewhere in a page after you add a jar.

  Simon