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Version 1 (J. Wienke, 05/16/2011 02:02 PM) → Version 2/10 (J. Moringen, 05/20/2011 12:15 PM)

h1. Overview Plugin Concept

* Plugins are Generally several alternatives:
# Libraries
loaded at initialization time
** This means, registration of provided converters and connectors happens during initialization
** This is required
from rsb configuration, must be available in order for RSB to be able inquire about capabilities and configuration of converters and connectors
* Selection and loading of plugins is configured using the [[Configuration|usual mechanism]]
** An implementation-language-specific section configures
*** Means of locating plugins (e.g. searchpath,
classpath, PYTHONPATH) pythonpath etc.... (user task)
*** Names of the # Separate plugin configuration: advantage -> questions to plugins that should can be loaded

h2. C++ Plugins

* Are shared objects
* Configuration via
asked at an early stage, e.g. configuration options
** @plugins.c++.path@: Colon separated list
of directories in which expanded (e.g. @rsbspread DIRECTORY/librsbspread.so@ on linux) plugin libraries will be searched connectors
** @plugins.c++.libraries@: Colon separated list of plugin names (no including prefixes like "lib" of suffixes like ".so" or ".dll")

Configuration Example.
<pre>
[plugins.c++]
path = /vol/vampire/lib:/vol/cor/lib
libraries = rsbspread:rsbvampire # no filetype suffix
</pre>