extensibility

In Node.js I was able to make a WordPress clone rather easily using the EventEmitter to replicate and build a hooks-system into the CMS core, which plugins could then attach to. I now need this same level of extensibility and core isolation for my CMS written in and ported to Go. Basically I have the core finished now, but in order to make it truly flexible I have to be able to insert events (hooks) and to have plugins attach to these hooks with additional functionality. I don't care about recompiling (dynamic / static linking), as long as you don't have to modify the core to load plugins -

I'd like to provide some way of creating dynamically loadable plugins in my software. Typical way to do this is using the LoadLibrary WinAPI function to load a dll and calling GetProcAddress to get an pointer to a function inside that dll. My question is how do I dynamically load a plugin in C#/.Net application? Zooba The following code snippet (C#) constructs an instance of any concrete classes derived from Base found in class libraries (*.dll) in the application path and stores them in a list. using System.IO; using System.Reflection; List<Base> objects = new List<Base>(); DirectoryInfo dir

I need some resources that talk about how to design your software to be extensible, i.e. so that other people can write add-ons/plug-ins that adds functionality to it. What do you recommend? Any books out there that discuss the subject? I would prefer something that's short and to the point; a bit of theory and a bunch of concrete examples. I'm not targeting a specific language, I want to be able to understand the core idea so that I can implement it in any language. And for the same reason, I prefer not to do it using a framework that someone else built (unless the framework is not very high

I'm trying to write a plugin system to provide some extensibility to an application of mine so someone can write a plugin(s) for the application without touching the main application's code (and risk breaking something). I've got the base "IPlugin" interface written (atm, nothing is implemented yet) Here is how I'm loading: public static void Load() { // rawr: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/c__plugin_architecture.aspx String[] pluginFiles = Directory.GetFiles(Plugins.PluginsDirectory, "*.dll"); foreach (var plugin in pluginFiles) { Type objType = null; try { //Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()