MagicBeans: a Platform for Deploying Plugin Components

Chatley, Robert; Eisenbach, Susan; Magee, Jeff

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-24848-4_7

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“…MagicBeans [3] and JLense [9]). Modern languages like Java support dynamic loading of classes by name, a very handy feature for the needs of building a plugin infrastructure.…”

Section: Supporting An Extensible Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

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Web Applications: A Simple Pluggable Architecture for Business Rich Clients

Mac-Vicar

Navón

2005

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. During the past decade we have been witnesses of the rise of the Web Application with a browser based client. This brought us ubiquitous access and centralized administration and deployment, but the inherent limitations of the approach however, and the availability of new technologies like XML and Web Services has made people start building rich clients as business applications front ends. But very often these applications are tied to the development tools and very hard to extend. We propose a clean and elegant architecture which considers a plugin based approach as a general solution to the extensibility problem. The approach is demonstrated by refactoring a simple application taken from a public forum into the proposed architecture including two new extensions that are implemented as plugins.

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“…MagicBeans [3] and JLense [9]). Modern languages like Java support dynamic loading of classes by name, a very handy feature for the needs of building a plugin infrastructure.…”

Section: Supporting An Extensible Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…We chose MagicBeans [3] plugin engine because its simple design. Other plugin engine approaches could require wrapping the manager with our model.…”

Section: An Example Applicationmentioning

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Web Applications: A Simple Pluggable Architecture for Business Rich Clients

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Navón

2005

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…In [3], [12], [13] a new plugin framework is introduced that is especially well-suited to handle plugin interaction. In [13] the implementation of this framework is discussed.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Linearly Ordered Plugins through Self-Organization

Bako

Borchert

Heidenbluth

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International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'06)

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Nowadays, plugin-based applications are quite common. Eclipse is probably the most popular example of such an application. By means of plugins, end-users can add or remove functionality even at runtime. Besides the kernel, plugin-based applications can be kept very small and nearly everything can be designed as a plugin. However, if plugins are added at runtime, their ordering is difficult to organize. This can be observed for graphical user interface representations of plugins, such as menu or list items for example. In particular, the kernel may not refer to a single concrete plugin, since it has to be independent of concrete plugins-according to the plugin concept. Therefore, self-organization is proposed in the present paper as a solution to structure plugin-based applications. A pattern for linearly ordered plugins is presented. The end-user still retains the possibility to reorder the plugins manually according to his preferences. A sample application of the presented pattern in the context of graphical user interfaces is described.

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“…OpenRec [53] is a software architecture effort focusing on how to design dynamically reconfigurable systems. The MagicBeans platform [54] supports self-assembling systems of plug-in components that allow applications to be constructed and reconfigured dynamically at runtime. Reference [55] presents a generic architecture for the design and deployment of self-managing and self-configuring components in autonomic environments.…”

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Deploying Component–Based Applications: Tools and Techniques

Heydarnoori

Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications

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Summary. Software deployment comprises activities for placing an already developed application into its operational environment and making it ready for use. For complex componentbased applications that constitute many heterogeneous components with various hardware and software requirements, this deployment process can become one of the most burning challenges. In this situation, it is difficult to manually identify a valid deployment configuration that satisfies all constraints. Thus, automated tools and techniques are required to do the complex process of software deployment. To address this requirement, a variety of tools and techniques that support different activities of the deployment process have been introduced in both industry and academia. This paper aims to provide an overview of these tools and techniques.

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MagicBeans: a Platform for Deploying Plugin Components

Cited by 16 publications

References 9 publications

Web Applications: A Simple Pluggable Architecture for Business Rich Clients

Web Applications: A Simple Pluggable Architecture for Business Rich Clients

Linearly Ordered Plugins through Self-Organization

Deploying Component–Based Applications: Tools and Techniques

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