Writing a plugin

I'd be extremely interested in writing a CruiseControl plugin. But unfortunately the information available on the web-site is rather meager. ( http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/main/plugins.html#defaultregistry )

As a first attempt I'm just trying to make something print something on the screen when a build finishes. But even that simple task I didn't manage, simply because CC doesn't let me insert my own tags. For example I have the following config.xml:

<cruisecontrol>
    <project name="connectfour">

	<plugin name="CCReporter" classname="com.bps.cc.CCReporter"/>

        <listeners>
            <currentbuildstatuslistener file="logs/${project.name}/status.txt"/>
        </listeners>

        <bootstrappers>
            <antbootstrapper anthome="apache-ant-1.7.0" buildfile="projects/${project.name}/build.xml" target="clean" />
        </bootstrappers>

        <modificationset quietperiod="30">
            <!-- touch any file in connectfour project to trigger a build -->
            <filesystem folder="projects/${project.name}"/>
        </modificationset>

        <schedule interval="300">
            <ant anthome="apache-ant-1.7.0" buildfile="projects/${project.name}/build.xml"/>
        </schedule>

        <log>
            <merge dir="projects/${project.name}/target/test-results"/>
        </log>

        <publishers>
		<CCReporter/>
            <onsuccess>
                <artifactspublisher dest="artifacts/${project.name}" file="projects/${project.name}/target/${project.name}.jar"/>
            </onsuccess>
        </publishers>

    </project>
</cruisecontrol>

and when I start CC it says:
net.sourceforge.cruisecontrol.CruiseControlException: Nested element: 'CCReporter' is not supported for the <publishers> tag.

Same if I stick it in the <onsuccess> element.

So I'm confused, how can one make plugins if the config XML is restricted to a predefined set of tags?

And if it is predefined, would there be some sort of XSD file that I could modify to add it in? Although that would be ugly, that would at least make me get around it.

Mark

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