| Chapter 10. Image toolkit plug-in | ||
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 | Part IV. Plug-ins |  |
| Chapter 10. Image toolkit plug-in | ||
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| | Part IV. Plug-ins | |
An image toolkit plug-in adds the support of one or more graphics file formats (e.g. TIFF, SVG, etc) to XXE.
Like all plug-ins, an image toolkit plug-in is not declared anywhere. It is dynamically discovered and loaded during the startup of XXE (more info in Section 1, “Dynamic discovery of add-ons” in XMLmind XML Editor - Configuration and Deployment) provided that it complies with the following conventions:
The code of the image toolkit plug-in must be contained in a JAR file having a name ending with "_imagetoolkit.jar".
This JAR file must contain a META-INF/services/com.xmlmind.xmledit.imagetoolkit.ImageToolkit file containing the name of the class implementing interface com.xmlmind.xmledit.imagetoolkit.ImageToolkit.
For example, batik_imagetoolkit.jar contains META-INF/services/com.xmlmind.xmledit.imagetoolkit.ImageToolkit which contains com.xmlmind.xmleditext.batik_imagetoolkit.BatikImageToolkit.
Implement com.xmlmind.xmledit.imagetoolkit.ImageToolkit.
If you plan to implement an image toolkit plug-in and need an example showing how this can be done, please send an email to <xmleditor-info@xmlmind.com> and we'll provide you with the full source code of the "Apache Batik image toolkit plug-in ".
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