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During the last DSpace Committer meeting, I was prodded to start to show the community how one uses the Service Manager with some real world examples, I've decided to start to create a few of these hHowToHowTo's to assist you in learning to use the DSpace Services in intelligent ways. I had this little project floating around for some time and I decided it was something I could get down on paper fairly quickly for you. DSpace Services are about using Spring to Simplify your development life. And for our first example showing how to create services we will refactor the DSpace Launcher to no longer utilize the launcher.xml and instead load configured Commands from a spring configuration. The result of this approach will allow for Addons to easily provide additional commands into the launcher without having to physically alter a configuration.xml file in a config directory. To start with we will review the ScriptLauncher and discuss the problems that exist with it. For a full view of the source please see: ScriptLauncher.java
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