: I think, eventually, and I really hate to say this b/c classloading is a : nightmare, but we may want to look into isolated classloaders or OSGi or : something for the Solr Home lib directory. The benefits being that I already : see library collisions in our future.
we already have clasloaders isolated by SolrCore. multiple plugins used by the same core with conflicting dependencies might cause library collision, but i don't see how that would be much different using any other approach. if we switch to a config management framework that already has "plugin management" as a feature then by all means lets use it, but i don't think we need to go looking for a change -- we've alrady done the hard work. -Hoss
