Spring Integration

If your application uses the Spring Framework you can use plugface-spring instead of plugface-core.

The Spring integration provides Spring-optimized classes and a Spring Boot Autoconfiguration that will automatically configure them as Beans.

The SpringPluginContext is a special plugin context that will lookup plugins in both the standard PlugFace context AND in the Spring application context. So if we are requesting a plugin of type Greeter and the context cannot find it amongs plugins, it will look it up in Spring and return it, if it exists.

Also, the SpringPluginManager class will lookup plugin dependencies in the Spring context too, so you can inject regular Spring beens in plugins!
See Dependency Injection for more information.

Example

// Spring Configuration Class

@Bean
public Greeter greeter() {
    return new GreeterBean();
}

// Somewhere

// it will return the Spring bean if a similar class is not found in the plugin context
Greeter greeter = manager.getPlugin(Greeter.class);