more work on idp-distribution

[Marvin S. Addison]

> the reason is to avoid having the UI inside the war tree where it
> can't be modified easily or, in the case of packed wars, dynamically. And
> unpacked wars cause no end of confusion for people so I dislike them
> intensely and don't want key functionality to depend on that.

Understood.

> my concern is whether all the view handling will allow for externally
> located templates. I'm concerned they may do their own template lookup
> instead of using Velocity ResourceLoaders, but I don't know that they do.

Using velocity for the view rendering facility is new ground for me, but 
I wouldn't be surprised if they provide a number of conveniences to 
simplify loading view templates in the common case (classpath resources 
and below WEB-INF). I understand you want to load them from filesystem 
resources, which in the context of rendering views from webflow states 
would be uncommon. Hopefully the extension points to provide custom 
behavior are clear and not too troublesome.

M