janhoy commented on a change in pull request #531: URL: https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/531#discussion_r785560804
########## File path: dev-docs/plugins-modules-packages.adoc ########## @@ -0,0 +1,129 @@ += Plugins, Modules and Packages +:toc: left + +This document discusses how developers can group features into Plugins, Modules and Packages. + +== Definitions + +=== Plugin + +A plugin is a low level class that implements a certain Solr interface, such as +`QParserPlugin`, `AuthPlugin`, `UpdateRequestProcessor`, `QueryResponseWriter` etc. +See ref guide page https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr-plugins.html[Solr Plugins] for details. + +=== Module + +Earlier referred to as "Contrib". This is a well-defined piece of functionality that is Review comment: Last sentence says "A module can contain multiple Plugins." I'm open for re-phrasing suggestions. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
