[Zope] Product seeking products: how?

[Steve Spicklemire]

Hi Terry,

Have you looked at ZPatterns/TransactionAgents? They already have a 
PlugIn product that has the notion of a Plugin Type and a Plugin 
"registry" of sorts..

-steve

On Wednesday, June 5, 2002, at 02:42  AM, Terry Hancock wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I need to create a plugin architecture for a product I'm
> developing, since I want to encourage third-party
> contributions, and define a clean way for them to work
> together.
>
> Given that Zope already has a nice plugin architecture,
> AKA Products, it seems like the most logical solution is
> to use that.
>
> Thus, my plugins would just be Zope products which
> implement a certain interface.
>
> But it is unclear to me how best to go about finding
> them. It seems like the most plug-n-play way for this
> to work would be for my product to collect all the
> plugins when Zope restarts -- but there are some
> problems, such as how to run code after all the other
> products have loaded.
>
> Is there any example code I should be looking at
> to do this (i.e. other products that behave like this)?
>
> Thanks,
> Terry
>
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> ------------------------------------------------------
> Terry Hancock
> hancock@anansispaceworks.com
> Anansi Spaceworks
> http://www.anansispaceworks.com
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>
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