Bukkit vs CraftBukkit

Discussion in 'Plugin Development' started by caldabeast, Jun 20, 2013.

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    caldabeast

    I understand very little about how the interaction between Bukkit and CraftBukkit works or why it's necessary.
    I know that Bukkit is the Interfaces/API and CraftBukkit is the implementation, but could somebody explain why it's done like this?
    Because from what I can tell, it seems like it would be simpler to not bother with CraftBukkit and have all of the implementation in Bukkit, using classes instead of interfaces, and I know this can't be the case because otherwise it would have been done like that.
     
    caldabeast, Jun 20, 2013
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    Rocoty

    Short answer: To ensure thirdparties can create their own implementations of the API, such as Spigot.
     
    Rocoty, Jun 20, 2013
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    caldabeast

    Ooh alright. I never thought of it like that. Thanks!
     
    caldabeast, Jun 20, 2013
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