Package de.iip_ecosphere.platform.support.plugins

Class PluginBasedSetupDescriptor

java.lang.Object

de.iip_ecosphere.platform.support.plugins.PluginBasedSetupDescriptor

All Implemented Interfaces:

PluginSetupDescriptor

public class PluginBasedSetupDescriptor
extends Object
implements PluginSetupDescriptor

Loads a plugin based on the classloader of an already loaded plugin. Requires some form of ordered plugin loading!

Author:

Holger Eichelberger, SSE

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
private Class<?>	pluginCls
private String	pluginId

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
PluginBasedSetupDescriptor(Class<?> pluginCls)	Creates a setup descriptor for a given plugin class (factory, descriptor, etc).
PluginBasedSetupDescriptor(String pluginId)	Creates a setup descriptor for a given plugin id.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
ClassLoader	createClassLoader(ClassLoader parent)	Returns the class loader being responsible for loading the plugin.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface de.iip_ecosphere.platform.support.plugins.PluginSetupDescriptor

getInstallDir, getPluginDescriptors, preventDuplicates

Field Details

pluginCls

private Class<?> pluginCls

pluginId

private String pluginId

Constructor Details

PluginBasedSetupDescriptor

public PluginBasedSetupDescriptor(String pluginId)

Creates a setup descriptor for a given plugin id.

Parameters:

pluginId - the plugin id

PluginBasedSetupDescriptor

public PluginBasedSetupDescriptor(Class<?> pluginCls)

Creates a setup descriptor for a given plugin class (factory, descriptor, etc).

Parameters:

pluginCls - the class determining the plugin

Method Details

createClassLoader

public ClassLoader createClassLoader(ClassLoader parent)

Description copied from interface: PluginSetupDescriptor

Returns the class loader being responsible for loading the plugin.

Specified by:

createClassLoader in interface PluginSetupDescriptor

Parameters:

parent - the parent class loader with basic dependencies to use for loading this plugin

Returns:

the class loader