About Plug-ins

Structuring an application as a well-designed host framework and a set of plug-ins has many benefits to you as an application developer:

• You can implement and incorporate application features very quickly.

• Because plug-ins are separate modules with well-defined interfaces, you can quickly isolate and solve problems.

• You can create custom versions of an application without source code modifications.

• Third parties can develop additional features without any effort on the part of the original application developer.

• Because plug-ins are language independent, you can reuse legacy code.

End-users also benefit from using applications with a plug-in architecture:

• They can customize feature sets to particular workflows.

• They can disable unwanted features, potentially simplifying the application’s interface, reducing memory footprint, and improving performance.