Software Development Kit
The Developer Kit is a self-contained package that facilitates the process of developing plugins for geWorkbench.
Using the Developer Kit
The Developer Kit is available as a .zip file. Unzip it in to a directory of your choice, then follow the instructions below to create a geWorkbench plugin.
The high-level steps for creating, testing and releasing a plugin are as follows:
- Edit the provided Apache Ant build script to specify the name of your plugin.
- Add the .java source files for your plugin to the src directory.
- Add any .jar libraries that your plugin requires to the lib directory.
- Run ant to build your plugin.
- Edit the geWorkbench configuration file to add a directive for your new plugin.
- Run geWorkbench with ant run to test your plugin.
- Once satisfied with your plugin, use the provided utility to package your plugin in to a single file for distribution.
The next section will illustrate the above steps with an example.
