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If you are looking for up to date information I suggest you use the developer documentation resources which should provide you with the best and most update source of information. I perfectly understand your point, but the lead to this information was to cross-check procedural instructions from the...

Please check at http://www.joomla.org/component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,33/p,210/ Backwards compatibility with 1.0 Before we dive into the real stuff let’s talk about backwards compatibility. The new system has been designed to be fully backwards compatible withJoomla! 1.0. If you are installing a J...

This resource http://dev.joomla.org/component/option,com_jd-wiki/Itemid,/id,framework:database_part1/ can be useful for you.

Saludos.

Please note Joomla! also feature the JPATH_BASE constant, "to ensure this file is within the rest of the framework". Two different approaches, same result.

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_JEXEC_ is a constant initialized in order prevent unauthorized access (inclusions) to package' files. As MvBrakel said you find it everywhere in Joomla!

You have to use some XSS techniques (-X-Cross Site Scripting) in order to pass variables between both applications; this way you can write some logic to block direct access and construct the wrapper mechanism.

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