plugins made with eclipse

[kablammyman]

Hello, I did a search for this, but i still cant see the problem.

I have 2 extensions installed from the Unity3d examples (avatar chat and rts game). After getting things to work, I watched this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Elug...eature=related

I tried to follow it as best I can using Eclipse instead of NetBeans. Here at work, everyone uses eclipse for java development, so this is why I went with eclipse. To create my jar, I right click on the project and click export. This allows me to create a jar file. Also, there doesn't seem to be an option to creat a java lib, like in net beans. Anyway, when i try to install the hello world plugin I created (and i remove the other plugins) my plugin does not show up. (yes i restart ES5)

If i dont remove the 2 extensions, and try to add in the plugin i created, I get this error:

faultCode:Server.Error.Request faultString:'HTTP request error' faultDetail:'Error: [IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2032" errorID=2032]. URL: http://localhost:8080/jmx/read/com.e...09462912753224'

Here is java my code

import com.electrotank.electroserver5.extensions.BasePlugin;
import com.electrotank.electroserver5.extensions.api.value.EsObject;
import com.electrotank.electroserver5.extensions.api.value.EsObjectRO;

public class main extends BasePlugin {

		@Override
		public void request(String playerName, EsObjectRO requestOb)
		{
			getApi().getLogger().debug(playerName+" sent request");
			
			if(requestOb.getString("action").equals("requestHello"))
			{
				EsObject sendOb = new EsObject();
				sendOb.setString("action","hello sent");
				sendOb.setString("message", "hello buddy!");
				getApi().sendPluginMessageToUser(playerName, sendOb);
			}
		}
}

here is my Extension.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Extension>
	<Name>HelloWorldExtension</Name>
    <Plugins>
        <Plugin>
            <Handle>helloWorld</Handle>
            <Type>Java</Type>
            <Path>main</Path>
        </Plugin>
    </Plugins>
</Extension>

im not sure what I did wrong, but any help is appreciated.

[tcarr]

Are you using a package? Is the name of your Java class "main.java"? After compiling your HelloWorld into a jar, did you deploy with the jar in a lib folder, and your Extension.xml in the same directory as the lib folder, with this directory being inside your server/extension folder?

edit: try using a package in your project, and editing Extension.xml to match the new package name. Your code above isn't using any package at all.

[tcarr]

D'oh. Forgot the most common complaint! Try closing your ES Admin and opening it fresh. We have a known bug where new extensions don't show in the drop down list until ES Admin is restarted. That's supposed to be fixed for the next release.

[kablammyman]

Are you using a package? Is the name of your Java class "main.java"? After compiling your HelloWorld into a jar, did you deploy with the jar in a lib folder, and your Extension.xml in the same directory as the lib folder, with this directory being inside your server/extension folder?

yes to all of the above. I made sure the structure matched the plugins examples that were working for me. However, I'm not sure what you mean by "using a package." I dont use java very often, so java terms are still foreign to me (I'm a C/C++ guy)

edit: try using a package in your project, and editing Extension.xml to match the new package name. Your code above isn't using any package at all.

sorry to sound so n00bish, but how do i do this?

D'oh. Forgot the most common complaint! Try closing your ES Admin and opening it fresh. We have a known bug where new extensions don't show in the drop down list until ES Admin is restarted. That's supposed to be fixed for the next release.

i restart both the admin program and electroserver.

Thanks for your help so far.

[tcarr]

If you restarted the ES Admin and the extension still isn't showing, then odds are that there's a problem with your deployed extension. At this point I think the fastest way for me to figure this out is if you zip up your extensions folder, upload it somewhere handy, and then send me a link to it. I can then eyeball it to see if the extension is using the correct structure, etc.

[kablammyman]

here is a zipped version of my extension

http://kablammyman.webs.com/helloWorld.zip

[tcarr]

What version of the ElectroServer5.jar was that compiled with? The error message I'm seeing when I try to deploy complains about it being version 51, and there isn't any version 51. ES5.1 doesn't like it either.

[kablammyman]

the path to that jar is C:\Program Files\ElectroServer_5_2_3\server\lib\ElectroServer 5.jar

This is where the video told me to get it from.

[tcarr]

I get the same problem with ES5.2.3. Hmmm.... what version of Java is your Eclipse using to compile? I haven't tested ES5 running on Java 1.7 yet, just with Java 1.6.

[kablammyman]

sorry about the delay, I was in a meeting. anyway, here is the eclipse info

Eclipse IDE for Java Developers

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Build id: 20110916-0149
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I am using java 1.7. I have the option to use java 1.6 i believe.