Will plugins developed for WBI DK version 4.1 work with the new WBI DK version 4.5?
No. Plugins developed with the original version of the WBI Development Kit, version 4.1, cannot be used as is with the new DK download, version 4.5 (or the previous versions 4.4 and 4.3). However, it takes only a few minutes to port your plugins from 4.1 to 4.3 if you follow our notes on porting. Little porting should be needed to move from 4.3 to 4.4 or 4.4 to 4.5 — only if you used the old Database API, which has been removed in favor of the new Persistence classes. • Can WBI plugins use native code like other Java programs? Yes. Because WBI is written in Java, WBI plugins can use native code through the Java Native Interface (JNI). The example History plugin does this. Native code should reside in special subdirectories. We provide a method Proxy.getNativePath() that allows you to write platform independent Java code for loading native libraries. The idea is to separate native code into platform dependent subdirectories. The names of these directories reflect the operating systems
