MagicBeans - A Framework for Plugin Components

MagicBeans is a framework to support the use of plugin components in Java applications, written by Robert Chatley.

Documentation

Example code

Here is a short tutorial giving an introduction on how to write programs that use the MagicBeans framework.

Publications

Here is a list of publications relevant to MagicBeans.

MagicBeans: a Platform for Deploying Plugin Components - Robert Chatley, Susan Eisenbach and Jeff Magee - to appear in the proceedings of CD'04
Predictable Dynamic Plugin Systems - Robert Chatley, Susan Eisenbach, Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee and Sebastian Uchitel - published in the proceedings of FASE'04
Modelling a Framework for Plugins - Robert Chatley, Susan Eisenbach and Jeff Magee - in the proceedings of the SAVCBS'03 workshop at ESEC/FSE '03

Download

The MagicBeans prototype beta1 is now available for download here. This is not production code, and comes with no guarantees. Please do not use it for any critical applications.

Latest version - last updated April 16, 2004