Ideas for next release

[Decebal Suiu]

Hi,

Always I say that my projects are community driven projects, so I wish to know if you have some ideas for the next release(s).

My ideas are:

1. see if I can use PF4J together with Java 9 Modules

2. support plugins dependency version validation (https://github.com/decebals/pf4j/issues/32 https://github.com/decebals/pf4j-update/issues/22)

3. plugin lazy loading (load a plugin - classes, jars); now all plugins are loaded on start application (the idea is to load a plugin only if I use extensions from that plugin)

4. load plugins in parallel (if a plugin is not a dependency for another plugin) 

Points 3 and 4 are valuable for medium or big applications with many plugins and I don't know if they are such applications.

If you have any idea about a new feature or how we can improve an existing one, please don't hesitate to write a comment.

[Decebal Suiu]

The point 2 is done and I started to work on point 1 (see https://github.com/decebals/pf4j/issues/151).