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@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ Your application, as a PF4J consumer, has full control over each plugin (state). Development mode -------------------------- PF4J can run in two modes: **DEVELOPMENT** and **DEPLOYMENT**. -The DEPLOYMENT(default) mode is the standard workflow for plugins creation: create a new maven module for each plugin, codding the plugin (declares new extension points and/or +The DEPLOYMENT(default) mode is the standard workflow for plugins creation: create a new Maven module for each plugin, codding the plugin (declares new extension points and/or add new extensions), pack the plugin in a zip file, deploy the zip file to plugins folder. These operations are time consuming and from this reason I introduced the DEVELOPMENT runtime mode. The main advantage of DEVELOPMENT runtime mode for a plugin developer is that he/she is not enforced to pack and deploy the plugins. In DEVELOPMENT mode you can developing plugins in a simple and fast mode. @@ -224,8 +224,9 @@ You can retrieve the current runtime mode using `PluginManager.getRuntimeMode()` The DefaultPluginManager determines automatically the correct runtime mode and for DEVELOPMENT mode overrides some components(pluginsDirectory is __"../plugins"__, __PropertiesPluginDescriptorFinder__ as PluginDescriptorFinder, __DevelopmentPluginClasspath__ as PluginClassPath). Another advantage of DEVELOPMENT runtime mode is that you can execute some code lines only in this mode (for example more debug messages). -If you use maven as build manger, after each dependency modification in your plugin (maven module) you must run Maven>Update Project... - +**Note:** If you use Eclipse than make sure annotation processing is enabled at least for any projects registering objects using annotations. In the properties for your new project go to __Java Compiler > Annotation Processing__ +Check the __“Enable Project Specific Settings”__ and make sure __“Enable annotation processing”__ is checked. +If you use Maven as build manger, after each dependency modification in your plugin (Maven module) you must run __Maven > Update Project...__ For more details see the demo application. @@ -278,7 +279,7 @@ How to build ------------------- Requirements: - [Git](http://git-scm.com/) -- JDK 1.7 (test with `java -version`) +- JDK 7 (test with `java -version`) - [Apache Maven 3](http://maven.apache.org/) (test with `mvn -version`) Steps: |