Hi Sunburned, Congratulations on your Plan "A" concept. I see no theoretical reason why it couldn't be made to work. However, there can always be many practical reasons that any plan might fail during implementation, and since your Catalog example seems to be the only plugin that currently needs this kind of runtime plugin to plugin extensibility, why don't you test it out on your experimental JUMP flavor and see how well it really does the job?
By the way, the XML solution that I was proposing was mainly to solve an entirely different problem of plugins crashing JUMP on startup due to class not found errors. This is mainly an annoyance that people have to deal with when mixing and matching different JUMP flavor plugins, but is usually readily solved by posting a question on this list. regards, Larry On 2/27/07, Sunburned Surveyor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I spent an hour or so after work yesterday providing a more in-depth > explanation of how I thought plug-in dependency might be supported in > OpenJUMP. You can read that information on my OpenJUMP blog: > > http://openjump.blogspot.com/ > > I think it would only take me a few hours to implement Plan "A" in OpenJUMP, > if we decide to do that, and I believe it would really add a lot of > flexibility for plug-in developers. > > The Sunburned Surveyor > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > > -- http://amusingprogrammer.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
