Question

I’m very new to java and feel very confused. I’m trying to create a VERY basic plugin for the OpenFire server, but have no idea how to get started. I read the Developer Guide, but it doesn’t explain how to set everything up in eclipse. Do you have any good tutorials on how to create plugins for other applications in java? Like, how do I import all the openfire classes for instance? I get errors for all these lines of code:

package org.jivesoftware.openfire.plugin; //error is: The declared package "org.jivesoftware.openfire.plugin" does not match the expected package ""

import org.jivesoftware.admin.AuthCheckFilter; //errors are: The import org.jivesoftware cannot be resolved
import org.jivesoftware.openfire.MessageRouter;
import org.jivesoftware.openfire.XMPPServer;

My background is in C# so the syntax all looks nearly identical, but I have no idea how to use eclipse or how java works for plugins (seems very different than DLLs).

Thank you so much!

Answer 1

Hi you can follow my steps

1. get openfire code
2. within the source you’ll get plugins folder, you should put your plugin there. follow openfire plugin structure. or just copy and modify one of the plugin for simplicity
3. then you can follow this link to compile it . http://community.igniterealtime.org/docs/DOC-1200