Suite ModuleInstall

[Eran Levy]

Hello,
I've a LoginModule and some additional components which have to be initiated before the rest of the modules in the Suite.
Can you recommend me a way to init a module before the rest? or can I specify dependencies between the modules?

Thanks for your help,
Eran

[Wade Chandler]

--- Eran Levy <mceranlevy@...> wrote:
> Hello,
> I've a LoginModule and some additional components which have to be initiated
> before the rest of the modules in the Suite.
> Can you recommend me a way to init a module before the rest? or can I
> specify dependencies between the modules?
>

Eran,

You can either make the modules dependent on the Login module directly or you can use

OpenIDE-Module-Provides
and
OpenIDE-Module-Requires

to provide coupling less versioning. See:
http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-openide-modules/org/openide/modules/doc-files/api.html#how-vers

for more details. Either way should make sure the modules requiring the Login module to be loaded
first have that happen. I don't remember ever using/trying tokens (*-Provides/*-Requires), but it
has been around for a while. A token will be a class name, and it lets your module require a
particular class name to be loaded before it is loaded.

Wade


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