[FOR-562] Update Plugins howto

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.7
• Fix Version/s: 0.8
• Component/s: Documentation and website
• Other Info: Patch available
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ross Gardler
• Created: 01/Jul/05 00:09
• Updated: 23/Apr/06 19:07
• Resolved: 23/Apr/06 19:07

Description

The document at http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_70/howto/howto-buildPlugin.html needs to be updated in the following ways:

- remove warnings about instability
- add details about creating plugins outside of FORREST_HOME (mkdir PROJECT_HOME/plugins, copy whiteboard/plugins/build.xml to PROJECT_HOME/plugins, edit forrest.plugins.dir property)
- update section on seeding a plugin to reflect working outside of FORREST_HOME
- remove the existing note about copying build.xml

NB here should be no need to edit the forrest.plugins.dir, simply set it to '.'
In addition the buil file template should really be provided from the plugins directory rather than the whiteboard dir