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If we are using the thin-client set-up then only the UDA client needs to be installed – though a UDA server will need to be running somewhere accessible with the UDA plugins running on that server.

UDA vs UDA -plugins

The same plugins can be used for different UDA installs.

Current UDA does not dynamically search for plugins, i.e. it does not try and load every shared library in a directory. To load a plugin, it reads the plugin library name from a text file. “Registering” a plugin just means adding this plugin to that text file. (I plan to change this to remove the need for the text file at some point).

Only the plugin library name is in the text file though. To be able to load the plugin, the directory needs to be added to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Therefore, a module is needed.

UDA

Dependencies

DD & AL dependency

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