Package org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.deployment.plugins.api

Plugin API

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Description

Interface Summary

AppChangeDescriptor	This interface allows a plugin to receive information about what in a module or application has changed since the last deployment.
ModuleChangeDescriptor	This interface allows a plugin to find out what about a module or application has changed since the last deployment.

Class Summary

DeploymentChangeDescriptor	This class allows the plugin to ask for changes which happened in the application.
FileJ2eeModuleQuery	Finds the J2EE module for a file.
InstanceProperties	A way to ask the IDE to store customized information about a server instance and make it available to a plugin.
ServerDebugInfo	Class to communicate the debugging information between plugin, server api and IDE.
ServerProgress	This is an utility class to avoid exposing deployment interface ProgressObject directly in server management SPI StartServer.
ServerProgress.Command
UISupport	UI support for plugins provided by the j2eeserver.

Enum Summary

UISupport.ServerIcon

Server icon constants.

Exception Summary

InstanceCreationException

Package org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.deployment.plugins.api Description

Plugin API

The module layer contains two important types of information. Plugins register deployment factory, xml file that describes the plugin and additional factory classes for optional fuctionality. Modules that bundle J2EE servers can use layer for registration of J2EE servers instances.

An additional xml file is provided when a plugin is turned into a module to provide additional information. Class files are also supplied. This additional information is put into a netbeans modules that uses the deployment plugin as an external resource.

The dtd for this xml file is available.