Developing your own plugin
You can set up a development environment within the SDK and use it to create a plugin.
About this task
The Java SDK, along with Apache Ant, enables you to create directories for your project and use the build script to build, clean, or deploy it.
Steps
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Create a new project directory in the
<pf_install>/pingfederate/sdk/plugin-src
directory. -
In the new project directory, create a subdirectory named
java
.This is where you place the Java source code for your implementation. Follow standard Java package and directory structure layout.
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If your project depends on third-party libraries, create another subdirectory called
lib
and place the necessary.jar
files in it. -
Edit the
build.local.properties
file and settarget-plugin-name
to specify the name of the directory that contains your project. -
Run the appropriate target to clean, build, or deploy your plugin.
To display a list of available build targets, run
ant
from<pf_install>/pingfederate/sdk
.[java] Main targets: [java] [java] clean-plugin Clean the plug-in build directory [java] deploy-plugin Deploy the plug-in jar and libs to PingFederate [java] jar-plugin Package the plug-in jar [java] [java] Default target: help
Because it packages the
.jar
files with additional metadata to make them discoverable by PingFederate, we recommend building the project with thebuild.xml
file included in the SDK.