2 Dec
2011
2 Dec
'11
2:11 p.m.
Hi Jeremie,
On Dec 2, 2011, at 2:06 PM, jerem wrote:
By the way, in the Component tutorial :
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/WritingComponents
... there is nothing clear about this needed registration step ... As it's
described, deploying a component in order to use it seems as easy as copying
the .jar somewhere. Maybe some more details could be added in the tutorial ?
There's this line:
"And now, the components.txt file, in which component implementations present in this
jar are specified for the ComponentManager to register them."
This combined with Annotations makes registration.
In fact in the tutorial it seems we only need to
create a component.txt file
and everything is auto-magically registered by the ComponentManager …
Yes that's what is called registration (with annotations) :)
There are some more details here (referenced from the tutorial: "You should start by
reading the Reference document on XWiki Components."):
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Component+Module
So for registration 2 solutions are possible:
1) automatically with annotations and components.txt
2) manually using the ComponentManager
Thanks
-Vincent