Overview
The Block-Deployment module provides a Java servlet context listener, that unpacks all blocks into the temp directory of the current servlet context. A block is recognized if it has an entry Cocoon-Block-Name in its manifest file.
The Maven Jar plugin or the Ant Task 'manifest' allow the manipulation of manifest file.
The class org.apache.cocoon.blockdeployment.BlockContextURLConnection provides access to the deployed blocks and can be used to resolve block-context: URLs.