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To manage expectations, this is still a Spring-based application that is wired together very statically and relies on a lot of older technology that is not amenable to dynamic plug-and-play behavior. The goal was not to redesign the system, but to redesign as much of the configuration as possible to work in a more "default to safe" way to reduce the number of files that a new deployer would be faced with. Many features are used by few (or no) deployers, so having to accomodate accommodate those configurations by default became less and less attractive.
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