[fpc-pascal] Module or Plugin or similar howto implement?

[Inoussa OUEDRAOGO]

2010/7/21 Eduardo <emorras at xroff.net>:
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:21:01 +0000
> Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.fpc-pascal at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Reimar Grabowski wrote:
>> > On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:13:15 +0200
>> > Eduardo <emorras at xroff.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I'm developing an app and need to extend its functionality via
>> >> external modules or plugins. Currently i'm trying to do it using
>> >> dll/so but don't know if there are better methods to do implement
>> >> it.
>> >
>> > I don't know if there are better methods, but I can say that the
>> > dll/so approach works quite well. At least it did for our project.
>> > It was written in C++ but I think it will work with pascal as well,
>> > if not better due to superior language. :)
>>
>> It works, and a dll/so can be dressed up quite nicely as an object.
>> The weakness is the lack of embedded description of the parameters
>> etc. of each entry point.
>>
>
> I was thinking about it, passing data and parameter types to generic
> modules.
> a) I can force to have all modules the same input/output entry
> point parameters.
> b) I can force to register the entry point parameters from data pool
> (which data the module need from all data the app has)
>
> The first is easier and moves complexity to module developer, the
> second is easier and more flexible to module developer but more complex
> to me, perhaps using SOAP like config.

WST* does support "web services" hosted in DLL/SO.


(*) http://wiki.freepascal.org/Web_Service_Toolkit

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Inoussa O.