Classpath and plugins question

[Antony Bowesman]

I'm looking to use the Nutch parsing framework in a separate Lucene project. 
I'd like to be able to use the existing plugins directory structure as-is, so 
wondered Nutch sets up the class loading environment to find all the jar files 
in the plugins directories.

Any pointers to the Nutch class(es) that do the work?
Thanks
Antony