Hi Ross, folks I think these are 'connectors' or 'gateways' in my vocabulary, 'interfaces' or 'hooks' used to be OK in about 1970s/1980s but are a bit too generic now..maybe there should be a naming competition?
Best regards Hugh On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> wrote: > A good while ago we seemed to agree that the name "plugin" is not a good > name. It creates considerable confusion for people new to Wookie as it seems > to imply that it is a way of plugging in functionality to Wookie. In fact it > is about creating plugins for other platforms so they can work with Wookie > widgets. > > On the other hand, from the point of view of the finished code they are > indeed plugins (just not for Wookie). > > With my proposal to create frameworks for different languages to allow easy > plugin development this problem becomes more accute. We will have code in > our repository that refers to plugins. > > I've started hacking a Java implementation of my framework proposal. in > this work I have used the package name: > > org.apache.wookie.connector.framework > > The idea is we can say something like "To implement a plugin for your > preferred environment select the appropriate connector framework for your > programming language and implement the IWookiePluginService class." > > Comments/thoughts on this? > > Ross > -- http://www.hughbarnard.org http://www.big-wave-heuristics.com/ http://www.hackney-environment-network.org.uk/
