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Re: plugin architecture

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On 7/20/2016 2:29 AM, Philipp Kraus wrote:
> I'm searching for an indea for a plugin architecture. I have found
> PF4J, OOGI and JPF.

What about using what is in Java SE aka ServiceLoader (see
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/ServiceLoader.html).

Or do what a lot of people are doing: just use Spring to load
the plugin.

Or do you really need some advanced features with versioning,
dependencies, unload etc.?

>            At the moment I have got a question: Is it a good idea,
> that one Jar file store multiple plugins or is it better that one
> plugin is represent by one Jar file.

One plugin per jar.

> Another question is because I'm using Google Guava and there exists a
> reflection API, so I can iterate over all classes within a package.
> IMHO I can use this reflection to load my plugin. Is this a good
> choice?

Direct reflection is probably too much a reinventing the wheel
framework.

Arne

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plugin architecture Philipp Kraus <philipp.kraus.flashpixx@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 23:29 -0700
  Re: plugin architecture Qu0ll <qu0ll64@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 05:10 +1000
    Re: plugin architecture Philipp Kraus <philipp.kraus.flashpixx@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 05:17 -0700
      Re: plugin architecture Qu0ll <qu0ll64@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 06:18 +1000
  Re: plugin architecture Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-22 23:50 -0400
    Re: plugin architecture Philipp Kraus <philipp.kraus.flashpixx@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 11:57 -0700

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