Building the sample plugin

For the purpose of this sample, use Eclipse to build a JAR of the sample Web Crawler parse plugin.

To build the sample plugin JAR file in Eclipse:

  1. Right-click on the source file and select Export.
  2. Select Java > JAR file and click Next.
  3. In the JAR File Specification dialog:
    1. Select the resources to export (the com.endeca.eidi.web.parse package).
    2. If it is not already checked, select Export generated class files and resources.
    3. Select an export destination.
    4. Select Compress the contents of the JAR file.
    5. Click Next when you are satisfied with the specification.
  4. Select any other JAR Packaging Options that you want and click Finish.

The next step is to copy the files to the proper locations in the IAS directory.