pf4j-spring compatibility with Spring Boot

Hello, i hope i can get some help.

I have tested successfully in my Spring Boot web application, loading plugins and getting my extensions from the plugin packaged in a jar like in your documentation shows in this way:

FileSystem sistemaFicheros = FileSystems.getDefault();
	   
PluginManager pluginManager = new SpringPluginManager(sistemaFicheros.getPath("/home/vbravo/Escritorio/plugins"));
pluginManager.loadPlugins();
	
List<Converter> converters = pluginManager.getExtensions(Converter.class);
for (Converter zipToPdfConversion : converters) {
    zipToPdfConversion.getConversionType();
}

But i don’t see any example of loading this plugin via @Autowired (in Spring Boot) like you say in the documentation:

Ready, your extension is available in your application via PluginManager or Spring Autowire.

I don’t understand very well what you mean exactly with Autowired, Do you mean i could load the plugin in this way as attribute of a class in a Spring Boot context?

@Autowired
Converter zipToPdfConversion;

Where Converter zipToPdfConversion is implemented in the same form of your documentation:

public class HelloPlugin extends SpringPlugin {

    public HelloPlugin(PluginWrapper wrapper) {
        super(wrapper);
    }

    @Override
    public void start() {
        System.out.println("HelloPlugin.start()");
    }

    @Override
    public void stop() {
        System.out.println("HelloPlugin.stop()");
        super.stop(); // to close applicationContext
    }

    @Override
    protected ApplicationContext createApplicationContext() {
        AnnotationConfigApplicationContext applicationContext = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext();
        applicationContext.setClassLoader(getWrapper().getPluginClassLoader());
        applicationContext.register(SpringConfiguration.class);
        applicationContext.refresh();

        return applicationContext;
    }

    @Extension
    public static class HelloGreeting implements Greeting {

        @Autowired
        private MessageProvider messageProvider;

        @Override
        public String getGreeting() {
//            return "Hello";
            // complicate a little bit the code
           return messageProvider.getMessage();
        }

    }

}

Can you show me some example to see how to do that Autowired of a plugin class (extending SpringPlugin) thru Spring Boot?

The idea is to load the plugin without package the plugin in a jar, i have just the plugin in the source code. I want the two ways, load from a jar and load without packaged in jar (is this possible?).

Thank you, greetings.