Devs, This is to let you know that I've started working on a very simple and lightweight ComponentManager implementation that I'd like to use for 2 use cases: 1) External users who want for ex to use some xwiki components without using the plexus would be able to use it with no additional dependencies (it'll be in our xwiki-component module) 2) Our unit/integration tests could use it and this will allow us to have component mocks and thus prevent duplicating for ex MockDocumentAccessBridge 10 times and allow the test to control the component mock behavior using jmock I'm planning to finish it over the week end. Please let me know quickly if you see an issue with 1) or 2). Thanks -Vincent