Re: [platform-core-dev] Conditional Plugin Loading

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The new runtime exposes the capability
to dynamically install plugins.  The rest of eclipse has not yet been
updated to discover/use these newly installed plugins however.  The
ability to block installation was not really on the plan.  I think
the sort of scenario you describe was more in the order of user-based configuration
discovery.

Having said that, the new runtime does
have a security model which, if you turn it on, allows for the blocking
of admin calls such as install.  The other approach that is supported
is the ability to run without an agent that knows how to install bundles.
 That is, you can configure and eclipse install with no update/install.
 Given that you know/trust the set of plugins you start with, you
can successfully prevent the installation of any plugins which would call
the install API.  A sort of weak bootstrapping security.

I would be interested in more on your
usecases.

Jeff

Philip Borlin <pborlin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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12/01/2003 12:25 PM

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Subject	[platform-core-dev] Conditional Plugin Loading

When the buzz around the rich client platform first
started to appear I 
remember a the talk of the possibility of conditionally loading plugins.
  For example:

A user logins in and is presented with only the plugins her credentials
authorize her to access.

I am not worried about the authorization service so much as the ability
to block plugins from loading.  Is this coming?  If so does someone
need 
help?

Thanks,
-Phil

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