### Eclipse Workspace Patch 1.0
#P sql12
Index: app/src/net/sourceforge/squirrel_sql/client/plugin/PluginManager.java
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RCS file: /cvsroot/squirrel-sql/sql12/app/src/net/sourceforge/squirrel_sql/client/plugin/PluginManager.java,v
retrieving revision 1.27
diff -u -r1.27 PluginManager.java
--- app/src/net/sourceforge/squirrel_sql/client/plugin/PluginManager.java	25 Dec 2008 19:09:32 -0000	1.27
+++ app/src/net/sourceforge/squirrel_sql/client/plugin/PluginManager.java	7 Mar 2009 15:21:25 -0000
@@ -21,6 +21,23 @@
  * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
  */
 
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationHandler;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.lang.reflect.Proxy;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.Comparator;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
 import net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.IApplication;
 import net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.gui.db.SQLAlias;
 import net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.gui.db.aliasproperties.IAliasPropertiesPanelController;
@@ -34,18 +51,14 @@
 import net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.util.ApplicationFiles;
 import net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.fw.gui.GUIUtils;
 import net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.fw.id.IIdentifier;
-import net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.fw.util.*;
+import net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.fw.util.ClassLoaderListener;
+import net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.fw.util.MyURLClassLoader;
+import net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.fw.util.StringManager;
+import net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.fw.util.StringManagerFactory;
+import net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.fw.util.Utilities;
 import net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.fw.util.log.ILogger;
 import net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.fw.util.log.LoggerController;
 
-import java.io.File;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.lang.reflect.InvocationHandler;
-import java.lang.reflect.Method;
-import java.lang.reflect.Proxy;
-import java.net.URL;
-import java.util.*;
-
 /**
  * Manages plugins for the application.
  * 
@@ -434,14 +447,15 @@
 		_pluginsClassLoader = new MyURLClassLoader(urls);
 		_pluginsClassLoader.addClassLoaderListener(classLoaderListener);
 		Class<?>[] classes = _pluginsClassLoader.getAssignableClasses(IPlugin.class, s_log);
-		for (int i = 0; i < classes.length; ++i)
+		List<Class<IPlugin>> pluginClasses = collectPluginClasses(classes);
+		for (Class<IPlugin> pluginClass : pluginClasses)
 		{
 			try
 			{
-				loadPlugin(classes[i]);
+				loadPlugin(pluginClass);
 			} catch (Throwable th)
 			{
-				String msg = s_stringMgr.getString("PluginManager.error.loadpluginclass", classes[i].getName());
+				String msg = s_stringMgr.getString("PluginManager.error.loadpluginclass", pluginClass.getName());
 				th.printStackTrace();
 				s_log.error(msg, th);
 				_app.showErrorDialog(msg, th);
@@ -461,6 +475,46 @@
 		});
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Collects a list of plugin classes from the lib/ class loader and the development
+	 * configuration file <tt>autoload-plugins.txt</tt>
+	 * 
+	 * @param classes
+	 * @return
+	 */
+	private List<Class<IPlugin>> collectPluginClasses(Class<?>[] classes) {
+		List<Class<IPlugin>> pluginClasses = new ArrayList<Class<IPlugin>>();
+		for (Class<?> class1 : classes) {
+			if (IPlugin.class.isAssignableFrom(class1)) {
+				pluginClasses.add((Class<IPlugin>) class1);
+			}
+		}
+		URL resource = getClass().getResource("/autoload-plugins.txt");
+		if(resource!=null) {
+			try {
+				BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(resource.openStream()));
+				String line;
+				while( (line = br.readLine()) != null) {
+					try {
+						Class<?> class1 = Class.forName(line.trim());
+						if (IPlugin.class.isAssignableFrom(class1)) {
+							pluginClasses.add((Class<IPlugin>) class1);
+						}
+					} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+						s_log.error("Unable to find class: " + line.trim());
+					}
+				}
+				br.close();
+			} catch (IOException th) {
+				String msg = s_stringMgr.getString("PluginManager.error.autoload",th.getMessage());
+				th.printStackTrace();
+				s_log.error(msg, th);
+				_app.showErrorDialog(msg, th);
+			}
+		}
+		return pluginClasses;
+	}
+
 	private void checkPlugin(File pluginFile, Map<String, PluginStatus> pluginStatuses, List<URL> pluginUrls,
 		boolean isMac)
 	{