I will try to explain my question with an example. Let us say that we are writing a hotel reservation system which is web based using Java. We will have different payment methods, say Paypal, Master Card and Visa Card. Different customers of our product will use different payment methods only. (Hotel XYZ, who is our customer, will only want to use Paypal and hotel ABC will only want to show the Master Card and Visa options).In this kind of scenario, the normal way of doing things would be to have the different payment methods as plugins. And install only the needed plugins in a customer environment.My question is, how to achieve this in a web application? From my understanding, the folder structure for a Java web application is as shown here. But if we have pluggable payment methods, the plugins themselves should be able to register the user interface components rather than having them in the main application. (For example let us say there is master_card.jsp file which handles the master card payments and visa.jsp etc..). With the above linked kind of folder structure, it seems to me that we would have to put in those jsp files in the webapp even though some customers might not need it.Can someone please let me know whetherif my above observation is correct how to have above kind of plugin structure with Java/Java EE? are there any frameworks in Java thatsupports above kind of thing?
Pluggable UI Components in Java Web Applications
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