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@@ -42,13 +42,14 @@ public interface MetadataProvider {
linkend="core.plugin-registry" />) without bothering developers with too
much information required.</para>
<para>The MetadataProvider interface is to be used in application plugin
interfaces to indicate that they can provide metadata. To ease plugin
implementation we provide AbstractMetadataBasedPlugin that uses the
internal metadata to implement supports(..) method of Plugin. Extending
this base class plugins with metadata as selection criteria can easily be
build. This way you could store the metadata in user specific
configuration files and use this to select a distinct plugin specific to a
given user.</para>
<para>The <interfacename>MetadataProvider</interfacename> interface is to
be used in application plugin interfaces to indicate that they can provide
metadata. To ease plugin implementation we provide
<classname>AbstractMetadataBasedPlugin</classname> that uses the internal
metadata to implement <methodname>supports(..)</methodname> method of
<interfacename>Plugin</interfacename>. Extending this base class plugins
with metadata as selection criteria can easily be build. This way you
could store the metadata in user specific configuration files and use this
to select a distinct plugin specific to a given user.</para>
</section>
</chapter>
</chapter>