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Dangers when implementing features as plugins [closed]
What kind of problems have you encountered when building plugin interfaces for your application? And how did you resolve them?
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I want to refactor an application so that various features ...
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Is there a term for this coding practice?
One of the incidental complexities of introducing features to an existing system is that the programmer often has to touch several areas of code that are not immediately adjacent. Over the long haul ...
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Avoid malicious code while dynamically loading classes with ClassLoader
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One of the advantages of decoupled components in systems is that you can extend the system without having to touch the existing code.
Sometimes you don't even have to recompile the old ...
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Where to start when designing an application that allows plugins [closed]
I'm building an application, and I'm thinking long-term I would like to be able to allow plugin support. The application I'm creating is a Java based application. How could I allow plugins using a ...
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How to allow multiple plugins to provide data for multiple aggregation processes?
I'm working on a Java project in which we want to have data collection plugins that collect data to be processed by one or more data aggregation modules. The plugins will all written in-house. Say for ...
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Is it possible to use PNaCl as a plugin framework?
I am looking to design an extremely modular game engine that allows for portable native plugins similar to the way PNaCl works with chrome. The biggest factors I need would be: cross platform, ...
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Does a web application framework require an application level plugin system?
Does using a web application framework, Spring, CakePHP, Django, etc., mean I do not need a plugin system for my main application, as in I don't have to build, essentially, a framework on framework?
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