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Review Flexagon plugins for reference.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Prefix the ","type":"text"},{"text":"Version","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"text":" of the plugin with the version of FlexDeploy it is compatible with (e.g. ","type":"text"},{"text":"4.0.","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"12). The minor version has be updated everytime a new jar is built and available to be loaded onto a server (whether internally or externally). The version must be unique for every plugin.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Name plugin operations as ","type":"text"},{"text":" ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"text":"(e.g. ","type":"text"},{"text":"stopServer","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":", ","type":"text"},{"text":"deployContent","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":").","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Name plugin inputs and plugin properties using _, and use all uppercase. (e.g. ","type":"text"},{"text":"FDAH_START_TIMEOUT","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"). In this example, ","type":"text"},{"text":"FD","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" is what Flexagon/FlexDeploy uses, and ","type":"text"},{"text":"AH","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" is the technology prefix for Apache Http Server. This will help ensure names are consistent and greatly reduce the risk of duplicate names across vendors/plugins.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Give careful consideration to the scope of your inputs/properties. If an attribute is likely to be fixed for every project and target, then it makes sense to be an input such that it is set once in the workflow. On the other hand, is the property likely to be environment specific? Is it likely to be project specific?","type":"text"}]}]}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":1},"content":[{"text":"Limitations","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The Plugin SDK has the following limitations:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"bulletList","content":[{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Partial Deployment plugins are not supported.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"SCM plugins can be created, however, they will not have integration with the Configuration tab of the FlexDeploy Project.","type":"text"}]}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"hardBreak"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"hardBreak"}]}],"version":1}

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