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How do we call a concept when my acceptor loop is ran by some real application while all services are plugins for that application?

So say we have an app (server) that somehow attaches to itself plugins (services) in form of .dll or .so libraries. Is there any nice short name for such server behaviour model?
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shipping a recompiled plugin under lgpl

I have recompiled a plugin (making changes before they are accepted upstream) for the gstreamer media framework. I did not recompile the whole library -- just a plugin. If I want proprietary python ...
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Plugins system for an Electron/React app

I'm developing a Electron/React app which uses Webpack and Asar technologies. It's designed to be a host app providing a common platform for some plugins. These plugins are downloaded and plugged into ...
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Developing an app extensible with standalone executable plugins

I am developing a desktop application (C++/Qt), which might be roughly represented as consisting of two parts - data-handling part and the GUI. I want the data-handling part to be extensible with ...
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Maven plugin to operate at parent and child module levels?

I have a large multi-module java/maven application where each child module is it's own java application and the root parent pom defines the standard dependencies pom.xml - parent pom - child1/pom.xml ...
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Many JS files included, one breaks all, smart approach to fix? [closed]

I'm doing a project that uses svg-edit(JS drawing tool) and the page grows big. By now there are about 20 JS file in a page - plug-ins and so on. One of the editor's files breaks in some kind of '...
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Plugin system design core component access: Common practice?

I wonder how to design a good plugin architecture in C++/Qt. The main concern I have is about dependency injection vs globals when it comes to the core components. Plugins should have access to ...
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Eclipse plugins - safe to install? [closed]

I've seen a few useful plugins for Eclipse such as jshint-eclipse. However, I'm a bit leery of installing third-party code. Is it generally safe to install Eclipse plugins without worrying about my ...
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Are RIA plugins a thing of the past?

In the not-so-distant past our department was touting Silverlight as the de facto standard for corporate intranet applications. A robust framework that allowed us to implement SOA while leveraging our ...
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Best way to design a class interface passed to library/plugin

I have an application comprising a bootstrapper executable, a core library and several plugins (shared libraries). The core library is implicitely linked to all components, the plugins get linked/...
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WPF plugin system - Dependency injection in plugin class libraries

The main application loads plugins, list them and when user selects one it is initialized and displayed. Each plugin is a complex class library which contains several views/viewmodels/repositories/etc....
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Architecture of an extendable application

I am developing an embedded application on an ARM platform. I want to use ArchLinux as the underlying operating system and then create my own GUI. I want the application to be extendable (have apps if ...
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My browser extension modifies the DOM. How do I stop this from interfering with page scripts?

I'm writing a WebExtensions browser plugin that will modify the DOM of the current page when the user presses a button in the toolbar. More specifically, I need to insert HTML tags into the DOM. Even ...
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Which Open Source License is right for my project? [closed]

I'm developing a suite of software tools that I need help with which is why I want to release my software open-source. People should be able to use and modify my code as they please while contributing ...
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Using a Plugin to call the Main fuctions

I have a program that uses OMR to scan a photo of a "scoresheet", and give a result. Its functionality is: Scan one photo Compare with database for which "template" to use, ...
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Java design pattern for handling configuration options and responding to changes in them

I'm working on an overlay/HUD for a Java game, where the user should be able to enable or disable certain components and choose configuration options. One such example is a health bar, which the user ...
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serving up future-proof kinfolk - extensible contract interfaces [closed]

Ok, I have this human here, but what can it do, how would you discover its special abilities? And when you find out what kind of expert you've got then how would you actually make use of its unique ...
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Extensibility in multi-tenant systems? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do you manage extensibility in your multi-tenant systems? I asked this on StackOverflow, but I thought it might be more appropriate for Programmers. I've got a few big ...
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What is the best way to run untrusted hooks/plugins?

I'm building a data processing system where users can submit hooks to execute on incoming data. The hooks are untrusted and should execute in a sandbox with access only to a limited API that I expose ...
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