Although my opinion won't count very much, i'd regard that as a great idea. This would make it possible to enable/disable plugins as needed without the need for a restart of the whole container. This would pave the way for the addition and removal of plugins completely at runtime, not only to disable/enable them.
Greets, Fabian Murray Altheim schrieb: > Not that anyone is paying that close attention, but if you have > you'd note that I'm managing a LOT of plugins. They're growing > like fungus around here. Now, I'm not trying to offload them but > my time lately has been very tight and testing has been a pain > since my typical build installation includes all of them, such > that I'm never sure of interactions. Lately I've been getting > ping'd on a number of different plugin packages that have been > bundled in the large CeryleWiki plugins jar file. I should > probably break that thing into much smaller jars. Time willing... > > It occurs to me to create a very simple "Controllable" API and > add a minor callout in the PluginManager to disable the function > of a plugin based on it occurring in an excluded list, or enable > it based on an included list (either? both?). A disabled plugin > would either be entirely ignored by the parser/PluginManager, > return an empty string, or some kind of error message (this might > be defined by the API). I'm thinking of writing some kind of UI > or JSP to permit an administrator to individually set a flag for > each plugin. > > Any thoughts on this? Bad idea? Good idea? Not an interesting > idea? When might this might make sense, JSPWiki-version-wise? > > Thanks, > > Murray > > ........................................................................... > Murray Altheim <murray07 at altheim.com> === = = > http://www.altheim.com/murray/ = = === > SGML Grease Monkey, Banjo Player, Wantanabe Zen Monk = = = = > > Boundless wind and moon - the eye within eyes, > Inexhaustible heaven and earth - the light beyond light, > The willow dark, the flower bright - ten thousand houses, > Knock at any door - there's one who will respond. > -- The Blue Cliff Record
