Deploying Job Entry Plugins
To deploy your plugin, follow the following steps.
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Create a jar file containing your plugin classes and resources
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Create a new folder, give it a meaningful name, and place your jar file inside the folder
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Place the plugin folder you just created in a specific location for PDI to find. Depending on how you use PDI, you need to copy the plugin folder to one or more locations as per the following list.
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Deploying to Spoon or Carte
Copy the plugin folder into this location:
design-tools/data-integration/plugins/jobentries
After restarting Spoon, the new job entry is available for use.
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Deploying to Data Integration Server
Copy the plugin folder to this location:
server/data-integration-server/pentaho-solutions/system/kettle/plugins/jobentries
After restarting the data integration server, the plugin is available to the server.
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Deploying to BA Server
Copy the plugin folder to this location:
server/biserver-ee/pentaho-solutions/system/kettle/plugins/jobentries
After restarting the BA Server, the plugin is available to the server.
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