ions.
 
 Each plugin may extend the base <code>Plugin</code>. <code>Plugin</code>
 instances are used as the point of life cycle managemet of plugin related
 functionality.
 
 The <code>Plugin</code> will be startuped and shutdown by the nutch plugin
 management system.
 
 A possible usecase of the <code>Plugin</code> implementation is to create
 or close a database connection.</div>
<dl><dt><span class="strong">Author:</span></dt>
  <dd>joa23</dd></dl>
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