Installing the Plug-In Development Environment

Most of the pieces that you need to create a plug-in solution are part of the standard N1 Grid Service Provisioning System software. However, you must install a few additional software ingredients to provide you with a complete development solution. These key pieces are contained in the plugin-core.jar file on the N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 5.0 Supplement CD.

Once you place the plugin-core.jar file where you want, be sure to modify the classpath for your Java tools to find the file.

The plugin-core.jar contains three packages that provide file system-based component browse and export classes:

com.sun.n1.sps.pluginimpl.system

Includes several constants that identify supported platforms

com.sun.n1.sps.pluginimpl.system.browse

Includes five classes that you can use to support file system-based browsing functionality:

• FileDisplay – A display appropriate for file system files

• FilesystemBrowser – A hierarchy browser for files ystems

• FilesystemBrowserFactory – Factory to return types sufficient for browsing a file system as a hierarchy

• FilesystemExtensionFilter – A FilesystemFilter that filters based on the file extension suffix

• FilesystemFilter – Base class for all file system filters

com.sun.n1.sps.pluginimpl.system.export

Provides one class FilesystemExporter that you can use to export a simple filesystem object