Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
This descriptor file mostly contains variables; these are Maven variables and will be
replaced with the values from your
pom.xml
file when you build your plugin.
The rest of the descriptor file is empty; this plugin does not contain any components,
which is very unlikely for a plugin.
We will be adding more modules to this file across this chapter, if you want an
overview of the available modules, skip ahead to the
Plugin module types
section.
Using a development environment
When developing your plugin, it is a good idea to use an IDE, short for integrated
development environment. A development environment will help you to make
fewer mistakes, and can come in very handy when trying to debug your plugin.
Installing Eclipse on Windows
We will be using Eclipse, but if you have a different preference, use your own IDE.
1. Download Eclipse for JAVA EE developers from
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
.
2. Extract the downloaded ZIP file onto the root of you hard drive. When you
are done, if your hard drive root is
C:\
, you will have the following folder
on your hard drive:
In the next step, we are making sure Eclipse uses the JDK we just installed; this is
done by editing the Eclipse initialization file.
