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title: Developing notification publishers
description: To develop a notification publisher, implement the NotificationPublisherPlugin interface.
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# Developing notification publishers

To develop a notification publisher, implement the `NotificationPublisherPlugin` interface.

PingFederate administrators can define and manage notification publishers, as described in [Managing notification publisher instances](../administrators_reference_guide/help_notificationsendertasklet_notificationsendermanagementstate.html). If those features do not meet your needs, you can develop a custom notification publisher using the PingFederate `NotificationPublisherPlugin` interface and the following Java packages:

* `com.pingidentity.sdk`

* `org.sourceid.saml20.adapter.conf`

* `org.sourceid.saml20.adapter.gui`

The `NotificationPublisherPlugin` interface, which extends the `Plugin` interface, defines the `publishNotification()` method.

For each implementation, define the `publishNotification()` method, in addition to the methods described in [Shared plugin interfaces](pf_share_plugin_interface.html). PingFederate invokes the `publishNotification()` method when publishing a notification. For example, you can configure PingFederate so that an account password change invokes the method.

```
PublishResult publishNotification(String eventType,
  Map<String, String> data,
  Map<String, String> configuration)
```

The method returns the `PublishResult`, the status of the notification that the plugin instance sent.

For more information about the `NotificationPublisherPlugin` interface, see the SDK Javadocs. You can also see a sample implementation in `pingfederate/sdk/plugin-src`.