[jira] [Updated] (WOOKIE-210) Refactor Feature loading and enable runtime inclusion

["Scott Wilson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Scott Wilson updated WOOKIE-210:
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    Component/s: Server
                 Configuration

> Refactor Feature loading and enable runtime inclusion
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>
>                 Key: WOOKIE-210
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WOOKIE-210
>             Project: Wookie
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Configuration, Server
>            Reporter: Scott Wilson
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> Features currently consist of a Java class that is complied at build time, plus a number of js and css resources. These are then installed and persisted using the ServerFeature bean and queried at runtime.
> However, there is no reason to require such a complex process for creating, building and installing features, and I propose instead we follow Shindig's approach and create an XML-based loading process.
> This would use a feature.xml file to configure each Feature object, e.g.: 
> <feature>
> 	<name>http://jquerymobile.com</name>
> 	<script src="jquery.mobile-1.0a4-patched.min.js"/>
> 	<script src="jquery-1.5.min.js"/>
> 	<stylesheet src="jquery.mobile-1.0a4-patched.min.css"/>
> </feature>
> This can then be loaded and transformed into an IFeature implementation class at runtime.
> The Wave feature is a little more complex, but could be handled more simply as an exceptional case where the WaveAPIImpl <IFeature> class is added explicitly to the feature loader.

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