Re: [xwiki-devs] Removing the templates/ folder from XWS web

Dear devs, In XWS 1.0, I've tried to make the product work with every skin we package with XE, in addition to XWS own skin ("workspaces"). For this, I placed several velocity files in the templates/ folder of the product webapp, for them to be available for every skin (for example, workspace.vm which is use as a "defaultTemplate" for workspaces home pages, or xwsmacros.vm which hold workspaces macros). I realized recently it's not proper solution, as it does alter a directory which is supposed to be common for every products, and it makes it harder to install properly XWS over an existing XE, or sharing XWS and XE instances in a XEM context. Put simple, I could not find a nice way of having both : 1) XWS not being intrusive in the webapp, apart from its skin 2) Workspaces work with every skin As for now, I consider 1) being more important than 2), and I see more use cases for it. So for XWS 1.1, I will remove the overriding templates/ folder by moving its velocity files in the workspaces skin. This will then break point 2). Are there any other solutions to reconcile both points I didn't see ?

For the future, I suppose we could use UI extensions for this. Regards, Jérôme.