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Posted to dev@nutch.apache.org by Teruhiko Kurosaka <Ku...@basistech.com> on 2006/08/31 22:10:13 UTC

Why are lib- plugins needed?

Hello,
I see many plugins named lib-xxxx which are wrappers around 
other non-plugin .jar files.

For example, analysis-de plugin uses lib-lucene-analyzers plugin,
which in turn reference to the jar file that contains GermanAnalyzer.

What is the reason for this indirection? The plugins called
by Nutch directly cannot reference non-plugin .jar directly?

-kuro