Setting Up a Development Environment for Oxygen XML Web Author Component Plugins
You will need a recent Eclipse EE.
This procedure describes a development environment that can be used to increase your productivity in writing plugins for Oxygen XML Web Author Component.
Developing a plugin for Oxygen XML Web Author Component might require repetitive coding-testing cycles. Since the process of building a whole SDK project requires a full Maven build, the whole process might prove to be time consuming. The following procedure provide a faster alternate way of testing the plugin:
- Go to the following repository and follow the instructions: https://github.com/oxygenxml/web-author-plugin-archetype.
- Run Oxygen XML Web Author Component in a Tomcat server. You can either use one of the installation kits, or build it using the oXygen XML SDK.
- Look in the Tomcat logs (or in the console) for a line like "
Loading plugins from: ${path}" and note the path of the plugins folder. - In the plugins folder, create a sub-folder with a name of your choice (for example,
myplugin). - In that folder (
myplugin), create aplugin.redirectfile that contains the path to your plugin project (created in step 2) on a single line. - Import your plugin project in Eclipse.
- Click .
- Choose Existing Maven Project.
- Browse for the location of your plugin.
- Modify the
plugin.xmlfile to add a library reference to the directory where Eclipse places the compiled output.With the default setup of a Maven project, this step requires that you add the following element:<library name="target/classes/"/>
- You can now open a document in the Oxygen XML Web Author Component and it will
automatically load your plugin.Every time you make changes to the plugin sources, you will need to restart Oxygen XML Web Author Component.
Once you are happy with the result, you need to add the plugin back in your SDK project and follow these instructions to perform a final testing of the project.