Software Plugins

Plugin: extending functionality of software.

As software plugin is a computer program extending another program. It resides within the host application, adding additional functionality the outer software.

There are several exemplary fields of application:

• Browsers using plugins for specific additional functionality, f.i. presenting video and graphics
• Email programs let plugins cipher and decipher encoded mails
• Media players are extended to support additonal media types and file extensions
• Development environments are customized to different programming languages through plugins
• Sound processing devices are extended through plugins with effects or other sound sources
• Graphic programs are extended with plugins to support additonal image formats
• Word processors uses plugins to export or import files from other word processing systems

Usually the hosting application offers a API or protocol for the plugin to use, and a way to register itself to the application, so the application knows about the presence of the plugin.
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