Smartservice Plugin Failing

RE: Smartservice Plugin Failing

jithesh — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 04:53:33 GMT

Seems like your Appian-plugin-xml is not valid. The "components" start and end tags are not required, you can remove it. Which explains why its unable to find the "key" tag.

Also its interesting to see inputs and outputs defined in the xml this way. Usually we don't do this. The deployer determines input/output based on the getter/setter in your class file and input annotations.

RE: Smartservice Plugin Failing

David Jimenez — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:09:22 GMT

The error says "version 0.0", but your plugin version is 1.1.0...

I think that appian is not finding your appian-plugin.xml file.

Where do you have it located...?

RE: Smartservice Plugin Failing

Shubham Aware — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 06:08:58 GMT

Smart service plugins must have all smart-service elements inside a single components tag within the root <appian-plugin>. Missing or incorrect components wrapping causes deployment failure.

RE: Smartservice Plugin Failing

naveena935004 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:05:02 GMT

Thanks Shubam, I verified my jar & it doesn't have any spaces, Any thoughts on this malformed XML? I looked at a few XML plugins from the app market, i didnt find a model XML which had an input & output mappings & also they are not wrapped inside a Components tag.

RE: Smartservice Plugin Failing

Shubham Aware — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:58:32 GMT

Best of my knowledge, The plugin fails because of XML or JAR packaging issues (like spaces in filename or malformed XML).
Also, Any change requires re-approval before redeploying on Appian Cloud.