Generating an Installer

BusinessWorks Plug-in Development Kit can package a created plug-in as a TIBCO Eclipse Plug-in.

Prerequisites

Ensure that you have exported required bundles as described in Exporting Features.

Choose one of the following ways to open the installer generation wizard:
- From the menu, click Help > Create BusinessWorks Plug-in Installer.
- On the toolbar, click Create BusinessWorks Plug-in Installer .
- Press Ctrl+6.
In the BW6 Plug-in Information dialog, provide the following information:
- Plug-in Properties File
  Click Browse to select the bw6-devkit_configuration.properties file that contains the project information of the plug-in.
  
  The configuration file is generated when generating your plug-in code for the first time. You can find this configuration file in your project folder that you specified in BusinessWorks Plug-in Development Kit wizard.
- Model Bundle Path
  Click Browse to select the folder that contains the model feature exported in the Exporting Features section.
- Design Bundle Path
  Click Browse to select the folder that contains the design-time feature exported in the Exporting Features section.
- Runtime Bundle Path
  Click Browse to select the folder that contains the runtime feature exported in the Exporting Features section.
- Output Location
  Click Browse to select the folder where the generated plug-in installer is saved.
Click Finish to package the plug-in.

The following two folders are generated in the output folder:

The PaletteName-P2Installer folder contains the JAR files and plug-in features.
You can use this installer to install the created palette in TIBCO Business Studio by using Eclipse Update Manager.
The PaletteName-RuntimeInstaller folder contains the devkitpackager.jar file.
You can use this devkitpackager.jar file to install only the runtime component by using the command line.