The Exalead CloudView Eclipse plugin is provided to help you develop and deploy plugins in Eclipse Indigo 3.7 or later. The documentation is packaged with this plugin and is available at http://eclipse.exalead.com.
You can develop custom components for:
• Exalead CloudView core
◦ Connectors
◦ Document Processors
◦ Meta Processors
◦ Prefix Handlers
◦ Push API Filters
◦ Query Processors
◦ Security Sources
• Exalead CloudView Mashup
◦ Widgets
◦ Feeds
◦ Feed Triggers
◦ Mashup Triggers
◦ Pre-Request Triggers
◦ MEL Functions
◦ Security Providers
Example 17. Why use it
• Easy deployment: you can package your plugin with customized components to be exported and deployed automatically on the selected instance of Exalead CloudView. For Mashup UI, this avoids rebuilding and redeploying the standalone-mashup-ui.war package for each customized item.
• Quick export: you can package your plugin with classes that you want to export and then export it as a zip file on a selected path.
• Manage installs: you can list the deployed plugins on a selected instance of Exalead CloudView and then select the plugins to remove.
• Debug connectors: you can use the debugging functionality to debug the code of custom connectors on-the-fly and avoid redeploying on an instance to check your code changes.