Any set of packages or classes can easily be made to play the role of an extension. The first step in turning a set of classes into an extension is to bundle them in a JAR file. Once that's done, you can turn the software into an extension in two ways:
- by placing the JAR file in a special location in the directory structure of the Java Runtime Environment, in which case it's called an installed extension.
- by referencing the JAR file in a specified way from the manifest of the another JAR file, in which case it's called a download extension.
This lesson shows you how the extension mechanism works by using a simple "toy" extension as an example.
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