topic Re: Discovering Cycle plugins in Alfresco Archive

Discovering Cycle plugins

mproch — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:55:59 GMT

Hello, Currently Cycle is automatically discovering plugins by scanning classpath for classes with annotations. This is really cool, but it's pretty hard to use in OSGi environment. The problem is that methods used by scannotation library do not work in OSGi, as it has dynamic class environment. I h

Re: Discovering Cycle plugins

bernd_ruecker — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:05:08 GMT

Hi Maciek.

In general I don't have problems with that. We even have an open issue, that we want to have it more flexible (e.g. to install new plugi-ins during runtime). At the moment this is not our biggest priority, so I cannot promise yet, when it will be done.

I created an issue for it: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-562

Cheers
Bernd