Index: applications/editors/josm/plugins/smed/src/smed/plug/ifc/SmedPluggable.java
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--- applications/editors/josm/plugins/smed/src/smed/plug/ifc/SmedPluggable.java	(revision 23198)
+++ applications/editors/josm/plugins/smed/src/smed/plug/ifc/SmedPluggable.java	(revision 23199)
@@ -6,10 +6,12 @@
 public interface SmedPluggable {
 
-    boolean start();
-    boolean start(JComponent panel);
-    boolean stop();
-    String getName();
-    
-    void setPluginManager(SmedPluginManager manager);
+	boolean start();
+	boolean stop();
+	String getName();
+	String getInfo();
+	JComponent getComponent();
+	
+	void setPluginManager(SmedPluginManager manager);
+
 }
 
Index: applications/editors/josm/plugins/smed/src/smed/plug/util/SmedPluginLoader.java
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--- applications/editors/josm/plugins/smed/src/smed/plug/util/SmedPluginLoader.java	(revision 23199)
+++ applications/editors/josm/plugins/smed/src/smed/plug/util/SmedPluginLoader.java	(revision 23199)
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+package smed.plug.util;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.MalformedURLException;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.net.URLClassLoader;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.jar.JarEntry;
+import java.util.jar.JarInputStream;
+
+import smed.plug.ifc.SmedPluggable;
+
+
+public class SmedPluginLoader {
+
+
+	public static List<SmedPluggable> loadPlugins(File plugDir) throws IOException {
+		File[] plugJars = plugDir.listFiles(new JARFileFilter());
+		Arrays.sort(plugJars);
+		
+		URL[] urls = fileArrayToURLArray(plugJars);
+		if(urls == null) return null;
+		
+		ClassLoader cl = new URLClassLoader(urls);
+		List<Class<SmedPluggable>> plugClasses = extractClassesFromJARs(plugJars, cl);
+		
+		if(plugClasses == null) return null;
+		else return createPluggableObjects(plugClasses);
+	}
+
+    private static List<SmedPluggable> createPluggableObjects(List<Class<SmedPluggable>> pluggables) {
+        List<SmedPluggable> plugs = new ArrayList<SmedPluggable>(pluggables.size());
+        for(Class<SmedPluggable> plug : pluggables) {
+            try {
+                plugs.add(plug.newInstance());
+            } catch (InstantiationException e) {
+                System.err.println("Can't instantiate plugin: " + plug.getName());
+                e.printStackTrace();
+            } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
+                System.err.println("IllegalAccess for plugin: " + plug.getName());
+                e.printStackTrace();
+            }
+        }
+        
+        return plugs;
+    }
+
+    private static List<Class<SmedPluggable>> extractClassesFromJARs(File[] jars, ClassLoader cl) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
+        List<Class<SmedPluggable>> classes = new ArrayList<Class<SmedPluggable>>();
+        
+        for(File jar : jars) {
+            classes.addAll(extractClassesFromJAR(jar, cl));
+        }
+
+        if(classes.isEmpty()) return null;
+        else return classes;
+    }
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    private static Collection<? extends Class<SmedPluggable>> extractClassesFromJAR (File jar, ClassLoader cl) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
+        List<Class<SmedPluggable>> classes = new ArrayList<Class<SmedPluggable>>();
+        JarInputStream jaris = new JarInputStream(new FileInputStream(jar));
+        JarEntry ent = null;
+        
+        while ((ent = jaris.getNextJarEntry()) != null) {
+            String entName = ent.getName(); //.toLowerCase();
+            
+            if (entName.endsWith(".class")) {
+                try {
+                    Class<?> cls = cl.loadClass(entName.substring(0, entName.length()- 6).replace('/', '.'));
+                    if(isPluggableSmedClass(cls)) classes.add((Class<SmedPluggable>) cls);
+                } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+                    System.err.println("Can't load Class" + entName);
+                    e.printStackTrace();
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        
+        jaris.close();
+        
+        return classes;
+    }
+
+    private static boolean isPluggableSmedClass(Class<?> cls) {
+        for (Class<?> i: cls.getInterfaces()) {
+            if (i.equals(SmedPluggable.class)) return true;
+        }
+        
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    private static URL[] fileArrayToURLArray(File[] files) throws MalformedURLException {
+        // splug contains at least smed_ifc.jar, but smed_ifc.jar isn't pluggable
+        if(files.length <= 1) return null;
+        
+        URL[] urls = new URL[files.length];
+        
+        
+        for(int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
+            urls[i] = files[i].toURI().toURL();
+        }
+        
+        return urls;
+    }
+}
Index: applications/editors/josm/plugins/smed/src/smed/tabs/SmedTabbedPane.java
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--- applications/editors/josm/plugins/smed/src/smed/tabs/SmedTabbedPane.java	(revision 23199)
+++ applications/editors/josm/plugins/smed/src/smed/tabs/SmedTabbedPane.java	(revision 23199)
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+package smed.tabs;
+
+import java.awt.GridLayout;
+import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import javax.swing.Icon;
+import javax.swing.JComponent;
+import javax.swing.JPanel;
+import javax.swing.JTabbedPane;
+
+import org.openstreetmap.josm.Main;
+
+import smed.plug.ifc.SmedPluggable;
+import smed.plug.util.SmedPluginLoader;
+
+public class SmedTabbedPane extends JPanel {
+
+    /**
+     *
+     */
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+	public SmedTabbedPane() {
+		super(new GridLayout(1, 1));
+		
+		List<SmedPluggable> plugins = null;
+		String pluginDirName = Main.pref.getPluginsDirectory().getAbsolutePath();
+		try {
+			plugins = SmedPluginLoader.loadPlugins(new File(pluginDirName + "/splug"));
+		} catch (IOException e) {
+			e.printStackTrace();
+		}
+		
+
+        Icon icon = null;
+        JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();
+
+		JComponent panel;
+		int i = 0;
+		for(SmedPluggable p : plugins) {
+			panel = p.getComponent();
+			tabbedPane.addTab(p.getName(),icon, panel, p.getInfo());
+			tabbedPane.setMnemonicAt(i, KeyEvent.VK_1 + i);
+			
+			i++;
+		}
+
+        //Add the tabbed pane to this panel.
+        add(tabbedPane);
+
+        //The following line enables to use scrolling tabs.
+        tabbedPane.setTabLayoutPolicy(JTabbedPane.SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT);
+    }
+}