On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 10:24 -0400, Jonathan Robie wrote: > I'm getting ready to make the XML Exchange a plugin, probably next week, > and I'd like to write some general docs on how to write plugins as part > of this. > > What are some good, realistic plugins that people might use in real > deployments? > > Jonathan
We should be *extremely* careful of making the plugin API public and supported. Documenting it is a good idea for the Qpid project, and it would be great to see non-redhat plugin contributions. However I would not make this part of our supported red-hat offering yet. The plug-in bits themselves are trivial but a useful plugin API has to expose a public Broker API of some sort and I don't think we're ready for that. If not done carefully, supporting a public Broker API could nail our feet to the floor in terms of being able to make broker changes without violating our support obligations. Cheers, Alan.
