When creating IBM Content Navigator plugins (or Case Manager Widgets), it may be a good idea to bundle generic services into a single plugin. The problem however is, that there is no straightforward way to invoke these services from within another plugin, as each plugin is loaded with its own classloader.<\/p>\n
In order to overcome this architectural issue, i ‘hacked’ \u00a0together a plugin-bridge allowing exactly that. (feel free to contribute improvements, as this is only a work in progress)<\/p>\n
Simply add this jar to your plugin (or even better, as a shared library for your navigator.war), and you’re ready to do stuff such as:<\/p>\n
\/** Some service within some plugin *\/\r\npublic void execute(PluginServiceCallbacks callbacks, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {\r\n\tJSONObject result = new JSONObject();\r\n\r\n\tPluginBridge response=new PluginBridge().invoke(\"OtherPluginID\",\"OtherServiceID\", [optional params]);\r\n \r\n\tresult.put(\"response\",\"The other response was: \"+response.getResponseAsString()); \r\n\r\n\tresponse.getWriter().write(result.toString());\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\nUseful, right? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n