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This class implements a plugin library manager. It keeps track of
a list of plugin handlers. A plugin handler knows which plugin library to load to get a specific class that is used to extend the functionality of a specific base class. For example, to extend the base class TFile to be able to read RFIO files one needs to load the plugin library libRFIO.so which defines the TRFIOFile class. This loading should be triggered when a given URI contains a regular expression defined by the handler. Handlers can be defined for example as resources in the .rootrc file, e.g.: Plugin.TFile: ^rfio: TRFIOFile RFIO Plugin.TSQLServer: ^mysql: TMySQLServer MySQL +Plugin.TSQLServer: ^pgsql: TPgSQLServer PgSQL Plugin handlers can also be registered at run time, e.g.: gROOT->GetPluginManager()->AddHandler("TSQLServer", "^sapdb:", "TSapDBServer", "SapDB"); A list of currently defined handlers can be printed using: gROOT->GetPluginManager()->Print(); The use of the plugin library manager removes all textual references to hard-coded class and library names and the resulting dependencies in the base classes. The plugin manager is used to extend a.o. TFile, TSQLServer, TGrid, etc. functionality. git-svn-id: http://root.cern.ch/svn/root/trunk@3789 27541ba8-7e3a-0410-8455-c3a389f83636
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