[frankmau5]

i want to learn how to make plugins but i am not to sure where to start. i know java and would like to find a book or a webpage that can help me understand what i need to do. i am not looking for someone to do it form me but i just want to read up about how to make a "core" app and what i would need to do to be able to add plugins to the app later and how to go about make a plugin. i have no code to show you because i just want to read up on how a plugin system would work. i am not to sure that if that all make sense but i hope so. so to sum up i am just looking for a book or a webpage to help me understand how plugins work. thanks

[modi123_1]

There not really books on making plugins. Loosely it is based on a decent understanding of OOP, predictable access points in and out of a class, and a way of having an application know it is supposed to load some compiled class/dll/library as a plugin.

Akin to shoehorning in "scripting" to a game.

[Skydiver]

If you want to see how Microsoft is recommending how to do plugins now (after the abuse of IAddin interface in the past), you can read about MEF which has a well thought out (albeit over engineered) architecture:
http://msdn.microsof...y/dd460648.aspx