Hi Mark, On 12/01/2014 09:51 AM, Mark van Reijn wrote: > Hi all, > > Directory Studio is becoming an invaluable tool for most LDAP administrators > that I work with. > In the recent past I have looked at extending Studio to include value editors > for certain attributes specific to Novell / NetIQ eDirectory. > > From the source plus the information contained in > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DIRxSTUDIO/Value+Editor+Extension+Point > I was able to construct a set of editors, most importantly for ACLs and the > eDirectory "Path” syntax. > > Lately I have been looking at ways to distribute these extensions, through my > own ”Extension location”. This does not seem to function properly and the > only way I have been able to successfully add my own extensions to Studio is > to simply copy the jar over to the ”plugins” directory. > > My question is: does the extension location feature work at all?
To be honest I didn't know about that feature. But a quick research shows that "Extension locations" don't seem to be supported sind Eclipse 3.4 [1], and the latest Studio release is based on Eclipse 3.7. I think the new way is to use "dropins" folder. > If not, then how can I contribute my extensions to the main Studio > development branch? You can submit a patch via Jira [2], then we can discuss how to proceed. What kind of value editors did you develop? Generic value editors can be put into the existing "valueeditors" plugins, eDirectory specific value editors should be put into a new plugin. Kind Regards, Stefan [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5704105/add-an-extension-location-entry-in-eclipse-galileo [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSTUDIO
