Difference between revisions of "Visible plugin (extension point)"

Revision as of 16:53, 13 May 2013

Identifier

ru.biosoft.workbench.visiblePlugin

Plugin

ru.biosoft.workbench

Applicable for

BioUML workbench

Description

BioUML workbench provides special tab where 'visible' plug-ins will be shown. For this purpose any plug-in can provide one ore more visible plug-in extensions. There is special utility class ru.biosoft.plugins.VisiblePlugin from which other visible plug-ins can be inherited.

Configuration Markup

<!ELEMENT visiblePlugin>
<!ATTLIST visiblePlugin
     name         CDATA #REQUIRED
     class        CDATA #REQUIRED
     displayName  CDATA #IMPLIED 
     description  CDATA
>

name

a unique name of plug-in.

class

the fully-qualified name of a class which implements DataCollection.

displayName

a plug-in title as it will be shown in plug-ins tab.

description

a plug-in description.

Note: some other valid properties from DataCollection and its ancestor can be used if necessary.

Examples

<extension point="ru.biosoft.workbench.visiblePlugin"> 
    <visiblePlugin 
        name="SBW" class="biouml.plugins.sbw.SbwVisiblePlugin" 
        displayName="Systems Biology Workbench"
        description="%sbw.descr"
    />
</extension> 

API Information

The value of the class attribute must represent an implementor of VisiblePlugin.