org.java.plugin.registry

Interface Library

All Superinterfaces:

Documentable<Library>, Identity, PluginElement<Library>, UniqueIdentity

public interface Library
extends UniqueIdentity, PluginElement<Library>

This interface provides access to information about resource or code contributed by plug-in.

Library UID is a combination of declaring plug-in ID and library ID that is unique within whole set of registered plug-ins.

Version:

$Id$

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Collection<String>	getExports() This method should return collection of String objects that represent resource name prefixes or package name patterns that are available to other plug-ins.
String	getPath()
Version	getVersion()
boolean	isCodeLibrary()

Methods inherited from interface org.java.plugin.registry.UniqueIdentity

getUniqueId

Methods inherited from interface org.java.plugin.registry.PluginElement

getDeclaringPluginDescriptor, getDeclaringPluginFragment

Methods inherited from interface org.java.plugin.registry.Identity

getId

Methods inherited from interface org.java.plugin.registry.Documentable

getDocsPath, getDocumentation

Method Detail

getPath

String getPath()

Returns:

path to resource

isCodeLibrary

boolean isCodeLibrary()

Returns:

true if this is "code" library

getExports

Collection<String> getExports()

This method should return collection of String objects that represent resource name prefixes or package name patterns that are available to other plug-ins.
For code library, prefix is a package name, for resource library, the same rules applied to relative resource path calculated against library path (you can replace slash characters in path with dots).
Example prefixes are:
"*", "package.name.*", "package.name.ClassName", "resource/path/*

Returns:

collection of exported resource name patterns

getVersion

Version getVersion()

Returns:

library version identifier as specified in manifest file or null