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jmDesktop...
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:07 am
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When you create a system that takes "plugins," does that mean that
your plugins give new additional methods that were not there in the
original plugin interface previously or does it only mean that I have
a set of interfaces that must be implemented and those new
implementations are my new functionality?

For example, if I have an IMath interface that has method signatures
that are called add and subtract, take two numbers, you get the idea,
does that mean that if I create a plugin that uses IMath, I only will
be creating implementations of add and subtract? If I created a
multiply and divide method, alongside my necessary add and subtract,
in my plugin is that now not a plugin but something else? Is that
just inheritance without the notion of plugin architecture, extension
rather than expected implementation?

Just trying to understand the fundementals. Thank you.
 
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