Introduction to Dynamically Loading Code

This programming topic describes the available techniques for loading executable code while an application is running.

Organization of This Document

To learn about the concepts related to dynamic loading, read the following articles:

• About Loadable Bundles describes how loadable bundles are structured and when you should use them.

• Loadable Bundles in Cocoa describes features specific to loadable bundles in Cocoa.

• CFBundle and NSBundle describes the relationship between the Core Foundation CFBundle opaque type and the Cocoa NSBundle class.

• Multi-Bundle Applications explains how to organize your application into multiple bundles for increased modularity and extensibility.

• Plug-in Architectures describes the plug-in concept and how to architect an application around plug-ins.

The following tasks are covered:

• Loading Bundles

• Creating Loadable Bundles

• Building Applications with Multiple Bundles

• Creating Plug-in Architectures

• Preventing Name Conflicts

• Loading Objective-C Libraries From Java describes how to load an Objective-C dynamic library into a Java application.