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JEB2 Developer Tutorial

6- Releasing a Plugin

Links:

• Part five of this tutorial
• API reference documentation

• A recap of online resources available for JEB2 developers

Now that your plugin is ready, you may be looking into some way to share it with your coworkers. It is not very handy to hand out classfiles, and change Classpath and Classnames in the options. The solution is to package your plugin: you will build a jar with plugin classname inside.

Use the build.xml template to generate the jar. You can run the build.xml directly from eclipse or execute the ant command.

It will generate a jar which has 2 specific entries in the manifest:

• Class-Path to indicate the required external libraries.
• JebPlugin-entryclass to indicate the classname

Copy both JebJavascriptPlugin.jar and js.jar to your plugin folder. You can remove the classpath and classnames entries related to JavascriptPlugin and js.jar.

Note: the best approach is to have one project per plugin.

Exercice: Split the project and generate JavascriptPlugin.jar and HashJavascriptPlugin.jar. Remove all classpaths and classnames to check that it works.

Next up in Part 7: Interactivity