Hi all,
After a few days of playing with Spring, Clint and I have got the WFS module behaving just like before, except for now it is a true "plug-in". Clint is working madly documenting the module system.
One of the nice side effects of breaking things out into modules and wiring them together with spring is the dependencies between system components are actually documented in the spring context files. Which means you can get a high level picture of the GeoServer architecture without having to wade through code.
Its a pity I cant commit since codehaus is down. Someone really dropped the ball on that one. I mean a week is pretty unreasonable for an open source project to be without version control. Once I can commit I look forward to running cite tests against 1.4.x.
-Justin
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Justin Deoliveira
The Open Planning Project
jdeolive@anonymised.com