diff --git a/hera-core/src/doc/core.xml b/hera-core/src/doc/core.xml
index 9f7ceca..f54754f 100644
--- a/hera-core/src/doc/core.xml
+++ b/hera-core/src/doc/core.xml
@@ -237,14 +237,14 @@ public interface ProductProcessor extends Plugin<ProductType> {
select plugins supporting the given delimiter. To not reimplement the
lookup logic for common cases Hera provides a
PluginRegistry<T extends Plugin<S>,
- S> that provides sophisticated methods to access certain
- plugins:
+ S> interface that provides sophisticated methods to
+ access certain plugins:
Usage of the PluginRegistry
PluginRegistry<ProductProcessor, ProductType> registry =
- PluginRegistry.create();
+ SimplePluginRegistry.create();
// Add plugin instances
registry.add(new FooImplementation());
@@ -283,5 +283,32 @@ registry.getPluginsFor(ProductType.HARDWARE, new MyException("Damn!");<plugin:registry id="plugins" class="com.acme.MyPluginInterface" />
+
+
+ Ordering plugins
+
+ Declaring plugin beans sometimes it is necessary to preserve a
+ certain order of plugins. Suppose you have a plugin host that already
+ defines one plugin that shall always be executed after all plugins
+ declared by extensions. Actually the Spring container typically returnes
+ beans in the order they were declared, so that you could import you
+ wildcarded config files right before declaring the default plugin.
+ Unfortunately the order of the beans is not contracted to be preserved
+ for the Spring container. Thus we need a different solution.
+
+ Spring provides two ways to order beans. First, you can implement
+ Ordered interface and implement
+ getOrder to place a plugin at a certain point
+ in the list. Secondly you can user the @Order
+ annotation. For more information on ordering capabilities of Spring see
+ the section on this topic in the Spring reference
+ documentation.
+
+ Using the Hera namespace you will get a
+ PluginRegistry instance that is capable
+ of preserving the order defined by the mentioned means. Using Hera
+ programatically use
+ OrderAwarePluginRegistry.
+
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