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troubles adding custom aspects

aznk — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:17:35 GMT

Hi,I tried adding some custom aspects by only modifying xml files (especially web-client-config-custom.xml) and it worked well. Then I added some other custom aspects by packaging java and xml (also web-client-config-custom.xml along with other model and context files) files into a jar. It also work

Re: troubles adding custom aspects

aznk — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:15:29 GMT

I guess the web-client-config-custom.xml packaged within the jar files interfere with the web-client-config-custom.xml located in alfresco/extension.
So in other words is it better to package web-client-config-custom.xml within the jar files or modify the original one directly ? Knowing that the sdk already includes this file and needs it to build with the ant script build.xml…

Re: troubles adding custom aspects

aznk — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:18:27 GMT

I found the answer to my question here :
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Packaging_And_Deploying_Extensions
"Limitations

As the web-client-config-custom.xml and custom webclient.properties files are looked up via the classpath you can only have one version. If you have multiple JAR files each with a web-client-config-custom.xml the ClassLoader will load the first one it finds, which in turn, will result in unpredictable behaviour. Furthermore, you can not guarantee which file will be found first.

It's therefore recommended that you only have one extension package containing all your customisations.

This limitation will be resolved in a future release. "