org.rhq.core.pc.plugin
Interface PluginFinder

All Known Implementing Classes:

FileSystemPluginFinder, SimplePluginFinder

public interface PluginFinder

Implementations of this object have the sole purpose of finding plugins and reporting where they are found. These objects do not do anything like parsing the plugin descriptors or even loading the jars. They just find the jars and report on their whereabouts.

Author:

Jason Dobies

Method Summary

Collection<URL>

findPlugins() Finds all plugins accessible to the plugin container and returns URLs that point to each plugin jar that is found.

Method Detail

findPlugins

Collection<URL> findPlugins()

Finds all plugins accessible to the plugin container and returns URLs that point to each plugin jar that is found.

Returns:

collection of URLS pointing to each plugin to be loaded