public  void configure(Configuration conf) throws ConfigurationException 
{
    
    /* (non-Javadoc)
     * @see org.apache.avalon.framework.configuration.Configurable#configure(org.apache.avalon.framework.configuration.Configuration)
     */
        /*
        < catalogues default="portalTools" >
          < catalogue id="portalTools" name="portalTools" location="cocoon:/i18n"/ >
        < /catalogues >
        */
        if (conf.getChild("catalogues").getAttribute("new", "no").equals("no")) {
            super.configure(conf);
            return;
        }
        DefaultConfiguration root = new DefaultConfiguration("root");
        DefaultConfiguration defconf = new DefaultConfiguration("catalogues");
        defconf.setAttribute("default", "default");
        root.addChild(defconf);
        PortalToolManager ptm = null;
        try {
            ptm = (PortalToolManager) this.manager.lookup(PortalToolManager.ROLE);
            List i18nc = ptm.getI18n();
            for(Iterator it = i18nc.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
                PortalToolCatalogue ptc = (PortalToolCatalogue) it.next();
                DefaultConfiguration catConf = new DefaultConfiguration("catalogue");
	            catConf.setAttribute("id", ptc.getId());
	            catConf.setAttribute("name", ptc.getName());
                catConf.setAttribute("location", ptc.getLocation());
                defconf.addChild(catConf);
            }
            super.configure(root);
        } catch (ServiceException e) {
           e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (ConfigurationException e) {
           e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            this.manager.release(ptm);            
        }
}