Built-in Extensions

The followig ready-to-use classes give you this exact extra functionality you need for your plugin manager:

• VersionedPluginManager
• ConfigurablePluginManager
• AutoInstallPluginManager
• FilteredPluginManager
• MultiprocessPluginManager

The following item offer customization for the way plugins are described and detected:

• PluginFileLocator

If you want to build your own extensions, have a look at the following interfaces:

• IPluginLocator
• PluginManagerDecorator

If you want to isolate your plugins in separate processes with the MultiprocessPluginManager, you should look at the following classes too:

• IMultiprocessChildPlugin
• MultiprocessPluginProxy