On Jun 15, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote: > Hi devs, > > Since I got some veto on http://markmail.org/message/feavtmfokcsaalpo > lets cut all that in small peaces. > > The today's episode is about finding what is the war we are running it > at runtime to list it in the core extensions (among other things it > allows to check for available updates). > > Like the JAR packages, a WAR contains pom.xml file, problem is that > this pom.xml file is not in a "stable" location > (META-INF/<groupId>/<artifactId>/pom.xml) and I can't find any generic > way to scan a WAR like Reflection allows to scan jars files from the > classpath. > > So as a last resort solution I propose to include the extension > identifier in the METAINF.MF at build time. This will give me the > entry point I need to find the pom.xml and gather more detailed > informations about the war to put it as core extension. > > WDYT ?
So this means that we put our extension ids in META-INF/MANIFEST.MF to have self-describing extensions. That seems a good idea to me. It also allows to recognize if a given artifact is a xwiki extension or not. Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
