Analyzer plugins

Background

We support two models of importing analyzer results. The older model, which we are phasing out, has the code for importing analyzer results as part of the core of OpenELIS. The newer model which all new analyzers should use is a plugin model.

Basics

There is a directory /plugin in OpenElis. Any jar file in this directory will be processed and if it is a valid analyzer plugin it will be added to the application. If the plugin is later removed any imported data will be retained but the analyzer will no longer appear in the menu and openELIS will not accept analyzer files meant for that analyzer.

The plugins are loaded during the application startup. A future feature will be to enable/disable them during runtime