JAVA Plugins Deployment

Congratulations on creating your own plugin! 🎉

Have a look at the steps to follow to add your plugin to an existing M.App Enterprise installation:

1. Create a jar file
2. Sign the jar
3. Add the jar to the plugins folder on the server

Create a jar file

MAE Client extensions are deployed as jar files. Jar files are used to bundle multiple files into one package. To learn more about jar files please visit the Java Tutorials.

General information about how to create a jar file can be found here.

If you are using the Eclipse IDE you can create the jar file using the built-in option JAR Export from File → Export → Java → Jar file.
Include the project that should be bundled into the jar file.

Sign the jar

After the jar file is created, it must be signed due to security policies, see Understanding Signing and Verification.

More information about how to sign jar files can be found here.

Add the jar to the plugins folder on the server

The signed jar file must be copied to the plugins folder that can be found under the installation directory of MAE on the server (INSTALLDIR\DesktopClient\jars\plugins). Only the signed file is needed, not the original jar file that has been created in Step 1.