Unfortunately, this meant publicly exposing the underlying service for the connector.
The other solution would be to create alternative initializers for services and connectors where objects could be given directly rather than loaded indirectly through config.
Unfortunately, this would require a lot of work in this case but might be the better way forward.
* Moved the SL asset type to content type conversion methods from ServerUtils to OpenSim.Framework.SLUtil
* Linked content type to asset type in AssetMetadata
Melanie