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- You can create a plugin as part of a maven build using the car-maven-plugin.
- You can create a plugin "virtually" by installing a deployed application from a running geronimo server acting as a plugin repository.
- You can create a plugin using the Geronimo administrative console to create or edit the plugin metadata.
Look in to Plugin infrastructure for more details.
Updating a plugin
At times, you may need to upgrade a plugin or jar version, for instance if a new version of a dependency is released but you cannot rerelease all the artifacts that depend on it. Here are some methods to upgrade jar versions.
Simple jar upgrade
If the jar is to be installed as part of a plugin installation, see the section below. Otherwise, follow these steps. First, if the server is running, stop the server. Second, copy the new jar into the appropriate directory in your geronimo server's repository. For instance:
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With this configuration, the server will substitute myjar-1.1.jar for any myjar-1.0.jar dependency.
Upgrading a jar while releasing a plugin
If the jar is installed as part of a plugin installation, you can include configuration upgrade information in the geronimo-plugin.xml. During plugin installation, the upgraded jar will be automatically installed. This is easiest to specify in the car-maven-config configuration in the pom.xml, prior to building the plugin.
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<artifact-alias key="org.foo/myjar/1.0/jar">org.foo/myjar/1.1/jar</artifact-alias> |
Look in to Plugin infrastructure for more details.