Plug-in Development projects and files

A plug-in project can contain any Message Brokers Toolkit for WebSphere Studio-developed plug-in resource. In WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker, it is used for user-defined message nodes.

User Defined Message Nodes

Plug-in development projects used to create Message Nodes contain these resources:
.msgnode file
Contains the definition of the node.
palette.xmi file
Lists the user defined nodes in the project and the Message Editor palette group in which they are shown.
.html file
Contains the help files for the node.
.java file
Java source code for Property Editors and Compilers.
plugin.xml file
The plugin manifest file that adds the node to the WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker installation
.properties file
National Language properties - contains the translations for Properties and Terminals
.gif file
Icon - contains the image to associate with the node

Related concepts
Client environment
Resources

Related tasks
Creating a new user-defined node project
Creating a parser in C

Related reference
Rules for naming workspace objects