XPatch
The xpatch mechanism enables you to split up your web.xml and put the snippets into the block it belongs too. It takes all *.xweb files from src/main/resources/META-INF/cocoon/xpatch and applies them to the generated web.xml file that you will find in target/rcl/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml.
Here is an example of an xweb file:
<xweb xpath="/web-app" unless="comment()[contains(., 'Xindice XML-RPC Server servlet configuration')]" insert-after="servlet[last()]"> <!-- XMLDB Block, Xindice XML-RPC Server servlet configuration --> <servlet> <servlet-name>Xindice</servlet-name> <display-name>Xindice XML-RPC Server</display-name> <servlet-class>org.apache.xindice.server.XindiceServlet</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>xindice.configuration</param-name> <param-value>WEB-INF/xindice.xml</param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> </xweb>
This xweb file adds the Xindice-RPC Server servlet to your web.xml.