RE: [ jEdit-devel ] Dynamically loading plugins, etc

[Will S. <wil...@ya...>]

> > I would like to stress again, adding the ability to
> > dynamically
> > load/unload plugins is not sufficient to reduce
> > start-up time nor memory
> > footprint. In jEdit, start-up time is potentially
> > slowed because it
> > scans all JAR files in the the jars/ directory, NOT
> > because it is
> > statically installing every plugin.

You could cache the configuration information in a serialized javabean, then
only scan if one of the jars is newer than the last config...

Will.