Openfire - Set Up for plugin development using Maven

Following are the steps which i have followed for setting up development environment for plugin development

1) Download latest nightly build or any stable build

   below is the link

https://www.igniterealtime.org/downloads/nightly_spark.jsp

2) Extract tar file into the  folder

   cd into folder

   cd openfire/bin

   Start the openfire by executing the below command from bin directory.

   sudo ./openfire.sh

Follow the installation steps, if you already has old installation and need to the existing users, select same database name and skip the password setting.

Verify openfire installation by login in to the admin dashboard.

3) I will be setting up plugin development in separate workspace, copy the plugin directory which we need to customize in to this workspace, then

   cd into this project
   execute the following commands

      mvn clean install
      mvn eclipse:eclipse

  Then export this project in to the eclipse. Do the changes and build the plugin by
     mvn clean install

  This will generate the jar file in target folder

  Plugin customisation is done.

4) Deploy the plugin to the openfire.

       Login to the openfire admin dashboard.
       Select Plugin tab, click the Choose file button and select the plugin jar file which you have build   in above steps. The click upload plugin button to deploy the plugin.

   The updated plugin is deployed into the openfire.