Deploying Plug-Ins

Once you have developed and tested your plug-in using Eclipse and Jetty, you can deploy the plug-in for production usage, so that it gets integrated into a Web Server like Tomcat.

Here are the steps to deploy the plug-in

1. Click File > Export... and select Deployable plug-ins and fragments.
2. Select the plug-in you created.
3. Enter a Directory where to deploy the plug-in.
4. Click Finish.

This wizard creates a .jar file which holds all your plug-ins files.

Here are the steps to install the deployed plug-in into the Web Server container:

1. Ensure the Web Server is stopped.
2. Copy the deployed plug-in in the Web Server:
   • Tomcat: copy the deployed plug-in jar file to this location:
     <Tomcat>/webapps/mdworkbench/WEB-INF/plugins
   • Jetty: copy the deployed plug-in jar file to this location:
     <Jetty>/plugins
3. Make sure previous versions of this plug-in are removed from this plugins location.
4. You might also need to clean-up the working directory of the Web Server:
   • Tomcat: delete the following location
     <Tomcat>/work/Catalina/localhost/mdworkbench
5. Start the Web Server.

Troubleshooting