Re: [udig-devel] Extention point processing

[Jody Garnett <jgarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for quick feedback :-) I am trying to feed the conversation back 
onto the list ...

> EEK1: This, by definition, passes control off to an external plugin, 
> and does not catch exceptions. One bad plugin could break everything ..

We can place a try catch in the code.

> EEK2: Allowing an extention to skip extention point processing forces 
> contributors to interact. One plugin can mask out others, the order of 
> extention points is not fixed, so we esentially have random behavior.

This is an actual mistake - I cannot propose a fix.

> Here are the Extender Rules: 

I am not sure if I can publish these - I included them in 
http://udig.refractions.net/docs/uDig-UIandFrameworkRecommendations.pdf. 
But they are not on any eclipse site, they are from the "Contributing to 
Eclipse" book, that said these rules are referred to a lot.

I am going to bite the bullet and place these on our wiki .. hope I 
don't get in trouble.