Vincent Massol wrote:

Hi,

Here's an idea: use annotations to remove the need for components.xml files. Example: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/components/trunk/maven-project/src/mai...

Pros: * always correct * simpler maintenance

Cons: * small tie with plexus. However the annotations are in small jar file by themselves and are only required at build time and not runtime.

I'm not sure yet. WDYT?

-0 Although I prefer annotations, in this case it's a dependency on Plexus. If we do this, then it will be harder to say that our components are framework-independent. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/