Today I started to develop my first plugin. My intention was to build a plugin like "Cisco IOS" but for Alcatel Network Devices. This plugin should'nt only collect alcatel-specific metrics but generic network device metrics. So I had a look on hq-plugin.xml from netdevice-plugin.jar. My question: Whats the best way to deploy such a plugin, using the framework of the netdevice-plugin ?
I tried to use classes and the xml-files of netdevice-plugin.jar, adapt it to alcatel and zip it again to a jar-file. That didnt work, because the name of the plugin has to be part of the classpath.
My questions: Whats the best way to deploy such a plugin, using the framework of the netdevice-plugin ? Is it mandatory to compile Java-classes again ?
