soft depend issues

I'm revising a plugin of mine and now that patPeter requries you to download a plugin instead of just having the files in my plugin i'm running into a problem I have the SQLibrary soft depended on because its not critical to run but having it allows more storage options of course. Well right before i call my code to load from disk i check to make sure the plugin actually exists before proceeding any further. With a softdepend or even depend the SQLibrary starts loading but doesn't finish in time so my plugin resorts back to file storage. what can i do to solve this? Here is my startup code.

Code:java

@Override
    public void onEnable() {
        // go ahead and create config file if it doesn't exist
        setupConfig();
 
        // load the config
        loadConfig();
 
        // check if SQLibrary is found before proceeding
        if ((backend == Backend.SQLITE) || (backend == Backend.MYSQL)) {
            if (getServer().getPluginManager().getPlugin("SQLibrary") == null)
                // warn user that sqlibrary wasn't found, defaulting to flat file this time around
                log.warning(prefix + "SQlibrary was not found and is required for mysql and sqlite database storage.");
                log.warning(prefix + "Please download it from [url]http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/sqlibrary[/url]");
                log.warning(prefix + "Defaulting to flatfile for now");
                backend = Backend.FLATFILE;
        }
 
        // set the backend at this point
        NoteManager.getInstance().setBackend(backend);
        NoteManager.getInstance().init();
 
        // init based on backend method currently set
        if (NoteManager.getInstance().getBackend() == Backend.FLATFILE)
            NoteManager.getInstance().initFlatFile(getConfig().getString("storage.flatfile.filename"));
        else if (NoteManager.getInstance().getBackend() == Backend.SQLITE)
            NoteManager.getInstance().initSqlite(getConfig().getString("storage.sqlite.filename"));
        else if (NoteManager.getInstance().getBackend() == Backend.MYSQL)
            NoteManager.getInstance().initMysql();
 
        // register the command executor
        noteExecutor = new NotebookCommandExecutorBukkit(this);
        getCommand("note").setExecutor(noteExecutor);
 
        try {
            Metrics metrics = new Metrics(this);
 
            Graph graph = metrics.createGraph("Number of note entries");
            graph.addPlotter(new Metrics.Plotter("Notes") {
                @Override
                public int getValue() {
                    return NoteManager.getInstance().getNumNotes();
                }
            });
 
            metrics.start();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
 
        // everything is done, at this point let the player know its enabled.
        pdfFile = this.getDescription();
        log.info("[" + pdfFile.getName() + "] version " + pdfFile.getVersion() + " is enabled");
    }
 

 

anybody?