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@@ -102,7 +102,10 @@ You can define an extension point in your application using **ExtensionPoint** i } 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 { |