Problem adding plugin

[mill...@milligan.no]

Hello,

I am having some problems adding a very simple plugin compiled into a jar. 

I use the following snippet to load plugins:

PluginManager pm = PluginManagerFactory.createPluginManager();

PluginManagerUtil pmtools = new PluginManagerUtil(pm);

pm.addPluginsFrom(ClassURI.CLASSPATH); // Load internal plugins

pm.addPluginsFrom(new File("Plugins/").toURI(),new OptionReportAfter()); // Load external plugins

I put a jar file in the Plugins folder. The content of the jar file is my plugin (with the @PluginImplementation annotation) and the source of the interface file. The Plugins directory is found as expected (I don't get any errors about the path not existing) but still the plugin doesn't get loaded. What am I doing wrong?

I also tried linking directly to the jar, but that didn't work either.

Looking forwards to your reply,

Sincerely,

Kristoffer Milligan

[mill...@milligan.no]

After having talked to Mr.Biedert he was able to locate my problem.

I was bundling the wrong files in my plugin jar (I was bundling the .java files, and JSPF needs the .class files). 

I am a Netbeans user so the plugin export feature presented in the howto video wasn't available to me. I fixed that by creating a few small scripts. In my build.xml, I put the following snippet:

<copy  todir="${build.home}/WEB-INF/classes">
      <fileset dir="${src.home}" excludes="**/*.java"/>
    </copy>

My compiler.sh contains the following lines:

#!/bin/bash

rm -rf "Plugins/"

mkdir "Plugins"

cd build/classes

for file in `ls net/myproject/plugins/`

do

FILE="${file%.*}"

jar cvf "../../Plugins/$FILE.jar" "net/myproject/plugins/$file"

done

This will effectively create a .jar with the compiled version of the plugin and place it in the Plugins folder of the project root.

[Antonio Manuel Muñiz Martín]

You should use some build tool instead of complex, ugly and
unmaintainable shell scripts.
Give a try to Maven, Ant, Gradle, etc or any other build tool. Your
life will become easier spontaneously.

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