Hudson-ci/Extend Hudson

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Developing Plugins

Hudson supports plugins, which allow Hudson to be extended to meet specific needs of individual projects. Read on to learn how to write a plugin.

• Write your first Hudson Plugin
• Plugin Architecture
• Plugin Directory Structure
• Sample - Writing an SCM plugin
• Extension points
  • Defining a new extension point
• Dependencies among plugins
• Writing Plugin code
  • Using IntelliJ IDEA plugin
  • Structured Form Submission
  • Making your plugin behave in distributed Hudson
  • Making your plugin behave in secured Hudson
  • Marking a new plugin version as incompatible with older versions
  • Hints for plugin-development newbies
  • Exposing data to the remote API
  • Writing CLI commands
  • Participating to the initialization
• Writing Plugin UI using Jelly Framework
  • Basic guide to Jelly usage in Hudson
  • Understanding Jelly Tags
  • Figuring out URL binding of Stapler
  • Writing Jelly views with IDE assistance
  • Adding tooltips
  • Writing a foldable section controlled by a checkbox
  • Jelly form controls
  • Jelly and XSS prevention
  • Unique IDs for Repeatable Content
• Writing unit tests for your plugin
• Writing UI integration tests for your plugin
• Understanding Stapler URL mapping rules
• Tips
  • Debugging native Maven jobs
  • Internationalization information
  • Choosing Hudson version to build against
  • Java 5 Compatibility
  • Bundling plugins with Hudson

• Hosting plugin
• Releasing Hudson Plugin

Additional references

• Hudson Javadoc
• Jelly taglib reference core define