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Hello...
Not sure if this is the best forum to post in but...
I'm prototyping an system in VB.NET that has a plugin architecture. Has anyone encountered any articles which discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using this type of architeture?
My google searches aren't being that helpful.
Thanks
Search this forum for Cander's post on plugins . It's good one on this site .
Hmm.. I'm kinda more interested in a discussion about the benefits of plugin architectures rather than HOW-TOs..
Thanks anyway.
Check out the .NET Architecture forum.
Sorry , that's all the help I can offer here , since this seems to be advanced concepts and few guys knows about it .
Well its really obvious actually. It has nothing to do with advantages or disadvantages. The only issue is, do you need it. If you need/want 3rd party developers to write add-on's to your application, then you create a plugin architecture.
Not quite. There are many other reasons to adopt a modular architecture besides 3rd party developers - flexibility, parallel development, distribution and maintenance issues...Quote:
Originally posted by Cander
Well its really obvious actually. It has nothing to do with advantages or disadvantages. The only issue is, do you need it. If you need/want 3rd party developers to write add-on's to your application, then you create a plugin architecture.
Those are more like benefits of modularity, which isnt neccesarily plugins. Just good use of dll's can provide you all the benfits you really need for an internal application
Nah.. I'm still talking specificaly about plug-in architecture. Just simply using a modular approach will not gaurentee the flexibility and scalability required by our clients.
But it's all semantics at the end of the day so lets not get bogged down. Thanks for your replies folks.