Jquery plugins occupy the same function name -> conflict

Question

I\'ve ran into a problem using jquery expose plugin alongside Masked Input plugin. The problem is they both occupy $.mask function which leads to conflict. But

Answer 1

I think I agree with mu's answer. One addition might be to use jQuery.sub().

Since most plugins use the jQuery global during construction, you should be able to alias jQuery before loading one of the plugins. Then you could re-alias afterwards to whatever you choose.

The only possible advantage to this approach is that it might isolate one plugin from the changes that another plugin might make to jQuery methods. It's slightly convoluted but the only alternative to altering the plugins, that I can think of.