org.rhq.core.pc.plugin
Class FileSystemPluginFinder

java.lang.Object
  org.rhq.core.pc.plugin.FileSystemPluginFinder

All Implemented Interfaces:

PluginFinder

public class FileSystemPluginFinder
extends Object
implements PluginFinder

Finds all JAR files located in a set of plugin directories. This does not load in any plugin jars nor does it parse any plugin descriptors. This merely looks for jar files in its plugin directories and reports where it finds them.

Author:

Jason Dobies, John Mazzitelli

Constructor Summary

FileSystemPluginFinder(Collection<File> pluginDirs)
Creates a new FileSystemPluginFinder object.

FileSystemPluginFinder(File pluginDir)
Creates a new FileSystemPluginFinder object.

Method Summary

Collection<URL>

findPlugins() Searches all the plugin directories (as defined by the argument passed to this object's constructor) and will load in all plugins it finds.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

FileSystemPluginFinder

public FileSystemPluginFinder(File pluginDir)

Creates a new FileSystemPluginFinder object.

Parameters:

pluginDir - an initial directory where this object will look for plugins

FileSystemPluginFinder

public FileSystemPluginFinder(Collection<File> pluginDirs)

Creates a new FileSystemPluginFinder object.

Parameters:

pluginDirs - an initial set of directories where this object will look for plugins

Method Detail

findPlugins

public Collection<URL> findPlugins()

Searches all the plugin directories (as defined by the argument passed to this object's constructor) and will load in all plugins it finds.

Specified by:

findPlugins in interface PluginFinder

Returns:

a set of URLs that point to all the plugins that were loaded.