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MagicBeans: a Platform for Deploying Plugin Components

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Component Deployment (CD 2004)

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Plugins are optional components which can be used to enable the dynamic construction of flexible and complex systems, passing as much of the configuration management effort as possible to the system rather than the user, allowing graceful upgrading of systems over time without stopping and restarting. Using plugins as a mechanism for evolving applications is appealing, but current implementations have limited functionality. In this paper we present a framework that supports the construction and evolution of applications with a plugin architecture.

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  1. Dept of Computing, Imperial College London, 180 Queensgate, London, SW7 2AZ, UK

    Robert Chatley, Susan Eisenbach & Jeff Magee

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, Software Systems Engineering Group, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT, London, UK

    Wolfgang Emmerich

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, 80309-430, Boulder, Colorado, USA

    Alexander L. Wolf

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Chatley, R., Eisenbach, S., Magee, J. (2004). MagicBeans: a Platform for Deploying Plugin Components. In: Emmerich, W., Wolf, A.L. (eds) Component Deployment. CD 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3083. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24848-4_7

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