Plugin Architecture / Security

Kind: tension

Record: tension:plugin-architecture-security

Canonical: Schema

"plugin-architecture" (extensibility-core layer) is traded against "Security" (security-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Security" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Listed in Tensions, after Plugin Architecture / Static Analysis and before Extension Points / API Surface Growth.

In tension with

• Plugin Architecture
• Security

Mechanism

• irreducible-tradeoff

Linked from

• Plugin / Extensibility / IoC
• Resolution mechanisms