Why not POCO (Plain Old C++ Object)?
Short answer is that I don’t know how to do that. As C++ does not provide reflection information, there’s no way to load a library and find out what’s in there unless some information were manually inserted. The downside is that we have to define the objects Qt way. But we got the information we need. Is it intrusive? Yes and No. Yes. We cannot just use any c++ objects. No, because we can still use the objects in other Qt applications without linking to QtIOCContainer. In this sense, the objects are POQO (Plain Old Qt Object). The other alternative is to use a C++ reflection library (e.g. SEAL Reflex Library) to do the same thing. It might be a better solution. But I guess the components have to be linked in the application and no longer pluggable.
