Working with plugin versions

If your installation includes more than one Guidewire application, be aware that some plugins exist primarily to connect to other Guidewire applications. If you want to use the base configuration plugin implementation to connect to other Guidewire applications, you must ensure that you use the correct version of the plugin implementation. The names of the classes are equivalent but vary in their package, which includes the application version number.

For the package name, Guidewire includes the application two-character abbreviation followed by the application version number with no periods. For example,in PolicyCenter 10.0, the package includes pc1000.

For example, in the Guidewire PolicyCenter application, the plugin implementation that connects PolicyCenter 10.0 to BillingCenter 10.0 is at the fully qualified path:

gw.plugin.billing.bc1000.BCBillingSystemPlugin

For integrations with other Guidewire InsuranceSuite applications, choose the plugin implementation class that matches the version of your applications. Choose the implementation with the proper version number of the other application (not the current application) in its package name.

Guidewire uses the following abbreviation conventions for naming its applications:

Application	Abbreviation
ClaimCenter	cc
PolicyCenter	pc
ContactManager	ab
BillingCenter	bc