Installing your own tool

Revision as of 16:45, 2 March 2007

To install your own tool

• Place your tool class file into Wandora's tool directory.
• Restart Wandora.
• Open Tool manager.
• Create new tool.
• Locate your tool class and give a name for your tool.
• Accept new tool and close tool manager.

Now your tool is available at Tools menu and ready to be executed.

Placing the tool class file

Tool manager scans through given folders for class files. If scanned class file implements tool interface the class is accepted as a Wandora tool. Folder list is given in Wandora options file with path elements. By default the tool manager seeks tool classes in:

     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/exporters
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/extractors
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/importers
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/layers
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/subjects
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/selections
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/associations
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/generators
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/navigate
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/project
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/subjects
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/topicnames
     com/gripstudios/applications/fng/tools

You have to place your tool class into one of these packages or you have to add new path element for your tool. If your tool class package is for example org.myproject.tools add element

   <path15>org/myprojects/tools</path15>

to options. Here we assume that options already contains 14 path settings.