[Swift-devel] wiring swift and falkon together

[Mihael Hategan]

On 05/25/2007 12:31:58 AM, Ben Clifford wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 24 May 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure if that is wise. The falkon provider should be a
> separate module
> > (build entity). In other words, it should be straightforward to
> either build
> > it or not build it.
> 
> needs a sensible deployment mechanism then, which pretty much means
> some
> nicer way of plugging in new providers to swift than manually editing
> config files / source code each time. there's a feature req for
> something
> like that for plugging in new mappers, but it should cover both.
> 

Providers in cog are dynamically loaded. Assuming that swift handles  
the sites.xml entries correctly, all it takes is to have the relevant  
jars and config files on the classpath (assuming that the provider  
itself does not have funny requirements).

Mihael