Building plugins in Openfire 4.3.2 (JSPs not being compiled)

Openfire Plugins
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y if this is a duplicate of a previous request. Older links on this topic appear to be broken.

Migrating from Openfire 4.2.3 to 4.3.2, I have not been able to successfully build my plugins. The plugin itself builds and creates a myplugin-1.0.0.jar and myplugin-openfire-plugin-assemply.jar (containing the myplugin-1.0.0.jar) but it does not contain (nor any other jar built containing) the web pages for the plugin.

I’m not a maven expert – obviously – but I assume I’m missing something basic in the pom.xml file for my plugin. (Since no plugins are delivered in the source since 4.3.0 – I have no example to follow).

Here’s the pom for the plugin (http shortened to ttp so it would post):

<project xmlns="ttp://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="ttp://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="ttp://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 ttp://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<artifactId>plugins</artifactId>
<groupId>org.igniterealtime.openfire</groupId>
<version>4.3.2</version>
</parent>
<groupId>org.igniterealtime.openfire.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>myplugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<name>My Plugin Example</name>
<description>An example to build a plugin</description>
<build>
<sourceDirectory>src/java</sourceDirectory>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>

The plugin structure is unchanged:

myplugin
–>lib
–>src
–>-->database
–>-->i18n
–>-->java
–>-->web

Followed the README to build just the plugin:
mvn verify -f plugins/myplugin/pom.xml

Again, plugin seems to build ok, just doesn’t contain any of the webpages. BTW, this built fine in 4.2.3.

Appreciate any help in resolving this problem.

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You can compare your pom.xml with say this plugin’s pom in our repo https://github.com/igniterealtime/openfire-broadcast-plugin

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Thanks for the help. I finally have my plugin working. For those who follow and may be looking for answers, here’s what I had to do.

It turns out that (now that I know where all of the updated plugins are in git) the search plugin is a better example. https://github.com/igniterealtime/openfire-search-plugin

I needed to add the jetty-jspc-maven-plugin to my pom (even though I thought the parent pom up in the plugins directory would have handled this).

In addition, I also had to create the WEB-INF/web.xml file in my src/web directory (use what’s in the search web.xml file - doesn’t seem to want to do the merge of the generated web.xml without it).

And if you’re debugging this like I am, you’ll need to copy the myplugin-openfire-plugin-assemply.jar file to your distribution-target-distribution-base/plugins directory (and I renamed it to just myplugin.jar).

For me, this seems to work.

Thanks for the help.

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You’re absolutely right. I’d love to find a way where we could do away with that dummy WEB-INF/web.xml file, but I’ve not found any way to coarse the JSP compiler to not need it :(. If you have a solution for that, that’d be more than welcome…

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By your question I assume you have created a plugin. Can you tell me while creating and testing the src of the plugin with openfire how did you debugged it.?