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    12 <concept id="GUID-9E92EE30-F2E2-5F28-BB2A-391C09EC69D2" xml:lang="en"><title>Plug-in Framework</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody><p>The Plug-in (ECom) framework is a generic framework that provides a common and system-wide mechanism for instantiating a dynamically determined component. The Plug-in (ECom) framework allows the framework or application designers to design interface definitions, plug-in writers to implement interfaces and plug-in users to use the required plug-in.</p> </conbody></concept>