Aha, the archetype provided in the tutorial generated META-INF/plexus/components.xml. After adding META-INF/components.txt, it is working. Very cool.
Thanks so much! ~David Marius Dumitru Florea (via Nabble) wrote: > Hi David, > > breeden wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm new to XWiki (and Maven, for that matter) and would like to write a > > component. I've gone through the Writing XWiki Components tutorial > and the > > Building XWiki from sources page and also found this helpful post: > > http://n2.nabble.com/Components-in-XWiki-td2621693.html#a2621693. I > > generated the sample org.xwiki.component.HelloWorld component from the > > archetype in the tutorial, compiled it using the Maven Eclipse > plugin, then > > dropped the jar in my WEB-INF\lib. But when I try to load the > component > > with the sample script: > > > > {{groovy}} > > def greeter = > > > com.xpn.xwiki.web.Utils.getComponent(org.xwiki.component.HelloWorld.class); > > > {{/groovy}} > > > > I get exceptions saying "Failed to load component > > [org.xwiki.component.HelloWorld] for hint [default]" and "Can't find > > descriptor for the component [role = > [org.xwiki.component.HelloWorld] hint = > > [default]]" > > > > I've also tried adding the @ComponentRole and @Component annotations > (with > > no hints) to HelloWorld.java and DefaultHelloWorld.java which > weren't there > > before, and also adding org.xwiki.component.HelloWorld to the > plugins in > > xwiki.cfg, but this doesn't seem to change anything. > > > > > What am I missing to successfully load the component? > > Do you have the META-INF/components.txt file in your jar? > > Marius > > > > > Much thanks, > > David Breeden > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [hidden email] > <http://n2.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=3814337&i=0> > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > View message @ > http://n2.nabble.com/Installing-components-tp3811159p3814337.html > To unsubscribe from Installing components, click here > < (link removed) >. > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Installing-components-tp3811159p3816761.html Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
