[ImageJ-devel] Simple plugin discovery logic

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, Curtis Rueden wrote:

> Today Rick & I added a simple plugin discovery mechanism to the ImageJ2 
> codebase. This is a work in progress. The idea is to have an interface, 
> PluginFinder, that provides a method, findPlugins(List<PluginEntry> 
> plugins), for populating a list with discovered plugins. The IJ1 
> compatibility layer can have an Ij1PluginFinder that discovers IJ1 
> plugins, and the ImageJ2 code can have an Ij2PluginFinder (or whatever) 
> for discovering any additional plugins of various types.

Great!

I could imagine that at a later stage, this is easily extended to provide 
discovery mechanisms for I/O, tool, display, editor and spreadsheet 
plugins in addition to menu entry plugins... :-)

Good job,
Dscho