Answered Controllers, processors, connectors and frontend

Hello everyone!

Feeling myself completely overhelming after reading all this stuff about controllers, processors and connectors in the documentation...

1. Well, first question. When reading the documentation on how to create a custom Resource Class (http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Creating+a+Resource+Class) the controllers of this objects are created inside the core/components/<packagename>/controllers folder, while all the controllers seems to be stored inside manager/controllers/<packagename>(default)/ folder! (If I understood that well, "default" is in fact something like a package name?)
What is the way to go?

2. And second question. Is it recommended to use these Processors, Controllers and Connectors on my Frontend? I want to do a lot of AJAX. If not, what is the correct way to go?

I've found this topic: https://forums.modx.com/thread/?thread=31535 - but here it was discussed before Revo 2.1, so it is a "bit" outdated.

Also found thiss on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10395660/front-end-ajax-in-modx-revolution/10428906 - is that the way to go? Or is there some more elegant solution?

Well, looking in the source code it seems that still the connectors are designed for manager use only (because of modConnectorRequest is an extention of modManagerRequest, exactly what was described in https://forums.modx.com/thread/?thread=31535 , so, probably nothing changed), and using the "stackoverflow" solution seems to me... Well, I didn't really liked it - faking the MODX autentication mechanism isn't good.

Probably still the best way to go is use the "resource connector". Probably every context should have its own "resource connector" with a snippet inside...

Can you confirm?

Thanks!