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Michael
Michael

Reputation: 42100

Plugins for Java Spring application

Suppose I have a Java Spring-based client application, which sends a request to a server and process the response. It uses Command pattern for the response processing.

Now I would like to discover and load these Commands in run-time. How would you implement it?

I am aware of "plugin" technologies, such as JPF and OSGI but they look as a huge overkill for me. I am thinking about using Spring's autowiring. Would you recommend it?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 6818

Answers (2)

E-Riz
E-Riz

Reputation: 33004

The spring-plugin project is probably worth looking at for this need. Unlike JSPF in the accepted answer, spring-plugin is designed specifically for Spring. It touts itself as "The smallest plugin system ever" which might be debatable (I replaced my own mini-framework that was even smaller/lighter) but it's definitely easy to swallow and yet flexible.

Upvotes: 7

Nico Huysamen
Nico Huysamen

Reputation: 10427

If you are looking for a very nice, light and very functional plugin framework, have a look at Java Simple Plugin Framework. I have made extensive use of this and it works great.

Using Spring's autowiring, you have to consider the implications around it. eg. you can only autowire Spring Beans etc etc.

Upvotes: 6

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