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Decebal Suiu 10 years ago
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Another important internal component is **ExtensionFinder** that describes how the plugin manager discovers extensions for the extensions points.
**DefaultExtensionFinder** looks up extensions using **Extension** annotation. You can control extension instance creation overriding `createExtensionFactory` method from DefaultExtensionFinder.
**DefaultExtensionFinder** looks up extensions using **Extension** annotation.
DefaultExtensionFinder looks up extensions in all extensions index files `META-INF/extensions.idx`. PF4J uses Java Annotation Processing to process at compile time all classes annotated with @Extension and to produce the extensions index file.

You can control extension instance creation overriding `createExtensionFactory` method from DefaultExtensionFinder.

public class WelcomePlugin extends Plugin {


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