I think the extension manager was removed because it didn't work with very
many plugins.  I know I had a problem with it installing the ArcSDE plugin
at one time.

Larry

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Stefan Steiniger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> there has been an extension manager, but this one was rather for
> downloading available plugins. the code is still there, but could be
> that the plugin needs to be activated (in the xml file)
>
> stefan
>
> Michael Michaud schrieb:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There used to be a plugin manager in the menu, but I cannot find it
> anymore.
> > It was from lat/lon if I remember correctly, but I'm not sure it has
> > ever been used the project's plugin.
> > Anyone remember ?
> >
> > Michaël
> >
> > Sunburned Surveyor a écrit :
> >> I've got about four plug-ins that I hope to release in January. This
> >> includes my reader for GPX files, the latest edition of the Super
> >> Select Tool, and a couple of Layer Utilities plug-ins.
> >>
> >> Some of these are simple plug-ins with a single Jar and no
> >> dependencies. So you can just drop them into the /ext folder of
> >> OpenJUMP. Other of my plug-ins, like the Super Select Tool and the GPX
> >> Reader, depend on external libraries and have I18N and configuration
> >> files. I had cooked up part of an installer for the Super Select Tool
> >> when I got to thinking that it might be nice to have a tool that could
> >> be used to install, uninstall, and update plug-ins for OJ. It wouldn't
> >> have to be a part of OJ, it could even run as a separate executable.
> >>
> >> I was thinking of this simple interface:
> >>
> >> public interface PlugInHandler
> >> {
> >>    public abstract void installPlugIn(File argOpenJumpFolder);
> >>
> >>    public abstract void uninstallPlugIn(boolean
> argRemoveSharedLibraries);
> >>
> >>    public abstract void updatePlugIn();
> >> }
> >>
> >> I was thinking of another interface that could be used by
> >> PlugInHandler.installPlugIn method implementations to show a standard
> >> GUI to the user during plug-in installation/update:
> >>
> >> public class PlugInInstallerGuiProvider
> >> {
> >>      public abstract JPanel getLicensePanel();
> >>
> >>      public abstract JPanel getInstallConfigurationPanel();
> >>
> >>      public abstract JPanel getAboutPanel();
> >> }
> >>
> >> I thought a library providing these interfaces and some default
> >> implementations might help us standardize plug-in management and make
> >> the process of installing and removing plug-ins a little easier on the
> >> end user.
> >>
> >> Do you guys have any comments on this?
> >>
> >> The Sunburned Surveyor
> >>
> >>
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