Lexicon

Plugins

Kind: mechanism

Layer: Structural Core

Record: lexicon:plugins

Canonical: Lexicon

Independently-developed components that attach to a host at defined extension points to add capabilities.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Legal-Transition Enforcement and before Policy.

Category

  • Core Vocabulary

Enabled by

  • Metadata-Driven Design
  • Inversion of Control

Linked from

  • Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems
  • Plugin / Extensibility / IoC
  • Infrastructure Concerns