[p2p-hackers] Re: Identify "defective" nodes

[Sam Berlin]

Thanks very much for pointing that out, Gordon.

The Stitch plug-in sounds like a very neat idea.  Has anyone else had
a pipe-dream plug-in they dreamed of being added to a p2p application?

Sam

On 2/28/06, Gordon Mohr <gojomo at bitzi.com> wrote:
> Daniel Stutzbach wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 11:00:39AM -0500, Sam Berlin wrote:
> >> I've been meaning for a very long time to add a plugin architecture to
> >> LimeWire, for things such as Credence and the like.  If anyone here is
> >> interested in such an addition, so they can provide their own add-ons
> >> to the program (and be able to ship just the plugin, not the whole
> >> program), please let me know.  I'll attempt to gather up what folks
> >> are looking for in an architecture and write something suitable.
> >
> > Wouldn't the API needed by plug-ins vary dramatically by what the
> > plug-in is designed to do?  Or do you have a particular group of
> > plug-in applications in mind that would interact with LimeWire in a
> > similar way?
>
> Yes, the API designer has to have a fair idea of the universe of
> potential plug-in capabilities, and what hooks will be necessary
> to enable those. But, there may be good models to emulate. I'm not
> familiar with the Eclipse plug-in API, but it seems to allow a lot
> of deep, varied improvements via drop-in modules.
>
> This project could be of interest for Limewire:
>
>   Java Plug-in Framework (JPF) Project
>   http://jpf.sourceforge.net/
>
> It's an Eclipse-inspired framework for adding plug-in capabilities
> to other Java applications.
>
> - Gordon
>
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