Marc, the plugins will be loaded by reflection and reside in the local CLASSPATH. (as I said, in the jar: of course;-)
Since we now the names of the plugins we do not need a own Classloader (besides that I'm working on one - which is in a creative pause right now -) For example the Persistence Plugin: the xmlBlaster.properties contains a line like: Persistence.Driver[filestore][1.0]=org.xmlBlaster.engine.persistence.filestore.FileDriver Then I know in the PluginManager (this is probably what you want to know) where to get the desired class. See: org.xmlBlaster.authentication.plugins.PluginManager See: org.xmlBlaster.util.PluginManagerBase whoo, there is a lack of documentation in the requirements. But studying the code should give you an idea, I hope. The Classloader approach I'm working on/thinking about is to avoid the existence of different ORB's in the same VM (if this is working at all) due to the integration of Xindice as a persistence layer in xmlBlaster. Hope you can find some suggestions. regards Heinrich On 12 Jun 2002, Mark Stang wrote: >Heinrich, >I guess what I was wondering is how you did the plugins? >I am writing an application and wanted to include plugins >in a jar. Are you using a custom classloader? Could you >give me a hint, point me in the right direction? > >thanks, > >Mark > >On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 12:06, Heinrich Götzger wrote: >> Marc, >> >> the plugins are ready compiled and included in the xmlBlaster.jar and >> will be installed during startUp, depending on the properties or other >> user settings. >> >> regards >> >> Heinrich >> >> >> On 12 Jun 2002, Mark Stang wrote: >> >> >Marcel, >> >Do you load the plugins from a .jar? >> > >> >thanks, >> > >> >Mark >> > >> >On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 02:42, Marcel Ruff wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> there is a plugin framework available which allows >> >> you to intercept published messages in the server. >> >> >> >> You can reject messages or manipulate them on demand. >> >> To do this, you need to write a little plugin with your specific >> >> code. >> >> >> >> See the requirement for more details: >> >> >> >> >http://www.xmlblaster.org/xmlBlaster/doc/requirements/mime.plugin.publishfilter.html >> >> >> >> enjoy, >> >> >> >> Marcel
