Java class for easy command management

I just got started with Bukkit today, and I have to say, it's really nice so far. Very clean. It took me a bit longer than I expected to learn how to set up commands though, and I felt like streamlining the process, so I devised a way to write a command's implementation in its own class, and reflectively load that class from the plugin.yml file when the server is started.

https://gist.github.com/b7e40e5a07611738e467

The gist includes ICommandable (which command implementations must, er, implement), CommandManager (which manages these implementations), and a "Tester" test plugin. What I like about this is that the only place that needs to explicitly know about the commands are the plugin.yml file and the commands themselves.

I thought I'd share it in case someone else found it useful. Let me know what you think!

EDIT: Probably should have put this in Plugin Development, if that's the case could someone move it there for me? Thanks >_>

 

Moved to appropriate forum

 

It appears I arrived at the same conclusion you did on command handling. Reflective dispatch of command handlers is much cleaner. I've posted a question related to the long-term usage of YML nodes for command-specific configuration but it doesn't seem to have garnered much interest.

 

Based on what I've heard, I think they're going to be overhauling how commands work, so there's always a chance of breaking changes. I actually wrote a patch to pull this into the core (though without the extra redundant manager/command classes from above), but it hasn't had much attention either.

 

Very nice... I'm using it currently and its usefull for hiding references between the classes

 

I have one question: How do the CommandManager handle with aliases??