`refreshDeclaredClasses()` (http://docs.ros.org/hydro/api/pluginlib/html/class__loader__imp_8h_source.html#l00619) makes use of `ros::package` to find new plugins (see `getPluginXmlPaths`: http://docs.ros.org/hydro/api/pluginlib/html/class__loader__imp_8h_source.html#l00177). However, in the most cases newly available plugins are probably not yet in the cache. Hence `getPluginXmlPaths()` should use call `rospack profile` (or something similar) to update the cache before looking for new plugins.