Generate plexus-request.xml with plexus-cdc

What is a plexus-request.xml?

it's the plexus conf file used by plexus-xwork and that contains all resquest objects like actions.
Two other files are used by plexus-xwork: plexus-application.xml and plexus-session.xml

I will have to think about this. How will the CDC/Plexus Maven Plugin know to tell the difference between a application, session and request component? Isn't that just how it's looked up? Also, what's the difference between plexus-application.xml and a normal components.xml?

CDC/Plexus Maven Plugin don't know the difference, it generate only the file we want :

<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
<artifactId>plexus-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<fileName>plexus-request.xml</fileName>
<containerDescriptor>true</containerDescriptor>
</configuration>
</plugin>

plexus-application.xml is similar to component.xml or the old continuum conf file (application.xml). In this file we add all component required by the webwork application and not session or request objects

this replaces the static plexus-request.xml file with an automatically version of the same file

updated room pom plexus-maven-plugin version 1.3-SNAPSHOT

touched all the *Action files

added plexus-maven-plugin call to continuum-webapp pom

aligned the xwork.xml file with the generated plexus-request.xml file so role hints where consistent across the board

err, in the continuum-webapp/pom.xml in that patch axe out the ${project.} bit, it doesn't need to be there

/Users/jesse/src/continuum-trunk/CONTINUUM-759+AbstractContinuumAction.patch

this patch includes all the other previous stuff, fixes the little mistake in the previous comment and also add something that emmanuel mentioned this morning when we were talking.

I added an AbstractContinuumAction class that implements LogEnabled and basically uses all the stuff from AbstractLogEnabled (since I couldn't extend both the required xwork ActionSupport and the AbstractLogEnabled. I setup all the Actions to use this as their baseclass and added in a test case to ensure the Action logging was working. This basically allows all of the actions to use the normal plexus getLogger().info("hi") type syntax for logging. This way we get to keep everything similar to the current plexus logging mechanism and can keep up with any improvements there.

the copyright in the abstract class is wrong.
I'd prefer to see plexus tags attributes indented like it's done in plexus docs : http://plexus.codehaus.org/ref/developer-guide/building-applications/cdc.html

/Users/jesse/src/continuum-trunk/CONTINUUM-759+AbstractContinuumAction+formatting.patch

+ the formatting emmanuel mentioned

Applied. Thanks.