bundling Designer Extension with Designer?

[m2spring]

How can I bundle my designer extension with Designer so that my users don't need to install the extension separately by going through the User Libraries hoops?
(http://www.activiti.org/userguide/index.html#eclipseDesignerApplyingExtension)
Thanks!
-Max

[trademak]

Hi,

You could change the Designer source code for that to make it as easy as possible for your users.
Then you can just add your extension to the standard palette.
If you want to use the designer extension mechanism I can't think of a solution where the user doesn't have to do anything.

Best regards,

[m2spring]

I'm thinking of adding an extension point to plugin org.activiti.designer.util to allow other plugins to contribute a Designer Extension directly.
In class o.a.d.util.extension.ExtensionUtil I would add logic to method getCustomServiceTasksContexts() to honor that extension point by calling each extension point contributor which would then return one or more CustomServiceTask objects.

With this extension point in place, I can encapsulate my Designer extension in an Eclipse plugin and no longer need to make it available through the project's classpath.

Does this sound like a reasonable approach?

-Max

[trademak]

Hi Max,

Yes that sounds like a solution. Would you be able to create a patch for this?

Best regards,

[ronald_van_kuij]

That would certainly be interesting functionality…

[m2spring]

Hi Tijs,
yes, I'm working on a fix and I'll be providing you a patch.
How would you like me to provide you the patch?
-Max

Hi Max,

Yes that sounds like a solution. Would you be able to create a patch for this?

Best regards,

[m2spring]

Hi Tijs,

I've got the patch ready:
https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkow-plugin/blob/master/activiti-patch/src/main/resources/activiti-de...

Can you please apply it?
Thanks a lot!
-Max

Hi Max,

Yes that sounds like a solution. Would you be able to create a patch for this?

Best regards,