About this trail

This trail shows how to get started with Plexus Component development. It starts off with a simple Plexus component and gradually evolves it to show different ways a component can be used.

• Prepping project: Website Monitor component
• Diving in
• Joys of TDD (Test Driven Development)
• More bells & whistles
• Configuring to get it right!
• Voila! We have a Component
• Component Usage Scenarios
  • From a Maven Mojo
    • Implementing Monitor Mojo
    • Adding configuration for the Mojo
    • Setting up Mojo unit tests
  • From a Plexus application
    • Plexus Embedder Intro & Site Monitor component integration into the application
  • From a Web application
    • Setting up a Web Application Project
  • From a SOAP Web Service
  • From an XMLRPC Service
• Packaging
• Other Resources

You can also refer to the Plexus Developer's Guide if you are interested in an in-depth understanding of Plexus internals and workings.