1. Dynamic discovery of add-ons

This section describes how XXE discovers and loads add-ons (that is, extensions) of all types:

Understanding this is important before learning how to deploy XXE.

About the integrated add-on manager

What is described in this chapter is not related to XXE integrated add-on manager (menu item Options|Install Add-ons).

The integrated add-on manager is just a facility which, in order to install add-ons, follows the rules described in this chapter.

For example, in order to install an add-on packaged as a Zip archive, the add-on manager simply unzips this archive in one of the two addon/ directories scanned by XXE at startup time.