How to install a custom plugin into Business Studio.

How to install a custom plugin into Business Studio.

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Article ID: KB0089242

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Products Versions
TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid -
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Service Engine -
TIBCO Business Studio - BPM Edition -

Description

Description:
We have created a custom plugin in Business Studio and included it in a “Update Site Project”. Then, we installed this custom plugin from "Help > Install new Software" successfully. However, when we created a project to use this custom plugin, Business Studio shows an error saying that it not able to resolve plugin dependencies.

Issue/Introduction

How to install a custom plugin into Business Studio.

Resolution

With the "Help > Install New Software" option, we are to install the custom plug-in into Eclipse's default target platform. But in the Business Studio Java development, we are using a separate target platform, "Tibco ActiveMatrix Runtime". This is why the custom plug-in installed was not properly loaded. Here are approaches that can be used to resolve the problem. 

Approach 1 (aka: Software Site):

- Window --> Preference --> Plug-in Development --> Target Platform
- Click on "Tibco ActiveMatrix Runtime" --> Edit
- At "Locations", click "Add.."
- Choose "Software Site", then go ahead to add the software site.

Approach 2(aka: Drag and Drop):

- Copy feature and plugin directories under the "software site" into \components\shared\1.0.0. Do not replace any existing files.