Plugin Framework for Java News

Hello all,

It gives me great pleasure to announce the first public beta release of PFfJ. Or in full, the Plugin Framework for Java.

This framework is intended for use with any java application, J2EE and J2SE and maybe, who knows, in the future J2ME.
It has several features already. The Plugin system is up and running. This Plugin system allows you to create your own plugins based of off the BasePlugin provided by the framework.
Also, the distributed functionality is up and running, albeit in a farly basic form.
Both these features can be easily configured through an XML configuration file.

There are still more features planned, most notably a transaction manager, which would enable database transactions that span multiple plugins. And there will also be Plugin clustering. Through clustering it would become possible to run a plugin on multiple servers to achieve a better performance.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.
If you want to try it out, there's a stable release (as far as I can tell) in the https://sourceforge.net/projects/pffj/files section. It has no documentation yet though and the wiki is still in development. But I encourage you to try it out. I can use the feedback.

Mark