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Version 0.8 of the Java Plug-in Framework is out.

as of now we are using 0.7; do we need to upgrade?

I’m not sure if any of these changes are crucial at the moment:

Status: done
Release date: 2005-12-10

Change log:

• Introduced UniqueIdentity interface in the registry API to mark all plug-in elements that may have unique identifier (plug-in descriptor, plug-in fragment, plug-in prerequisite, library, extension point and extension).
• Introduced special implementation of PathResolver that transparently makes shadow copy of plug-in before resolving it to the application. Among other things this helps to avoid locking of JAR files by application that prevents “hot updating” of plug-ins. For implementation details and configuration options see javadoc for org.java.plugin.standard.ShadingPathResolver class.
• Introduced “Single File Plug-in” Ant task to package plug-ins as ZIP files that may be executed later directly (part of JPF Tools).
• Introduced “Plug-in Info” Ant task to read plug-in ID and version from manifest file into project properties (part of JPF Tools).
• Introduced “JPF Boot” library to simplify running JPF based applications.
• Added Path and version info elements to jpf*.jar manifests. Version number no longer included into JAR file name.
• Introduced utility class org.java.plugin.util.IoUtil to hold useful I/O, File and URL manipulations.

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