application entities persist as serialised java objects. not ideal, but as a first pass, will suffice
for some reason, the contents of the plugin registry is not being persisted
huh, why?
delete functionality, and test cleanup
going about this arse-about-face
sigh, now it's just a mess
heh
shuffling things
let's try this again
cool, that's better.
fix use of generics for registries.
more fixing of noob use of generics