com.atlassian.plugin
Interface PluginManager

All Superinterfaces:

PluginAccessor, PluginController

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultPluginManager

Deprecated. since 2006-09-26

public interface PluginManager
extends PluginController, PluginAccessor

A plugin manager is responsible for retrieving plugins and modules, as well as managing plugin loading and state.

See Also:

PluginController, PluginAccessor

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

PLUGIN_DESCRIPTOR_FILENAME Deprecated.

Method Summary

void	init() Deprecated. Initialise the plugin manager.
void	shutdown() Deprecated. Destroys the plugin manager.

Methods inherited from interface com.atlassian.plugin.PluginController

disablePlugin, disablePluginModule, enablePlugin, enablePluginModule, installPlugin, scanForNewPlugins, uninstall

Methods inherited from interface com.atlassian.plugin.PluginAccessor

getClassLoader, getDynamicPluginClass, getDynamicResourceAsStream, getEnabledModuleDescriptorsByClass, getEnabledModuleDescriptorsByClass, getEnabledModuleDescriptorsByType, getEnabledModulesByClass, getEnabledModulesByClassAndDescriptor, getEnabledModulesByClassAndDescriptor, getEnabledPlugin, getEnabledPluginModule, getEnabledPlugins, getModuleDescriptors, getModules, getPlugin, getPluginModule, getPluginResourceAsStream, getPlugins, getPlugins, isPluginEnabled, isPluginModuleEnabled, isSystemPlugin

Field Detail

PLUGIN_DESCRIPTOR_FILENAME

static final java.lang.String PLUGIN_DESCRIPTOR_FILENAME

Deprecated.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

init

void init()
          throws PluginParseException

Deprecated.

Initialise the plugin manager. This must be called before anything else.

Throws:

PluginParseException - If parsing the plugins failed.

shutdown

void shutdown()

Deprecated.

Destroys the plugin manager. This must be called when getting rid of the manager instance and you plan to create another one.

Since:

2.0.0