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peterf
January 14, 2022
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Where is the Eclipse "Appian Developer Edition" download now?

  • January 14, 2022
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I need to download the Eclipse plugin development tool bundle for a new development machine. It was previously available at "s3.amazonaws.com/.../site.xml" but now is not locatable. I've read through the "Extending Appian" documentation and it looks like Appian has removed all mention of how to actually set up your plugin development environment for some reason.

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    richardm900458
    richardm900458
    January 14, 2022

    Hi peter,

    what is the target of using appian code in eclipse? just curious 

    stefanhelzle0001
    stefanhelzle0001
    Brainy
    January 14, 2022

    Did you read this?

    docs.appian.com/.../Custom_Smart_Service_Plug-ins.html

    richardm900458
    richardm900458
    January 14, 2022

    hahahaha win for you. Received officially my first "did you read?" 

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    peterfAuthor
    January 14, 2022

    What is your problem? Apart from the obvious one of course

    peter.lewis
    peter.lewis
    Employee
    January 14, 2022

    I believe most of our plug-in docs don't rely directly on that bundle tool anymore, so our instructions focus on starting with a blank project instead. That being said, I personally don't usually start with a blank project - instead I copy from an existing one to get me going! if you go to this page in our docs, it links to a few examples: docs.appian.com/.../csp-reference-examples.html. Then, you can copy over the example directories and just change the files you need to get going.

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    peterfAuthor
    January 14, 2022

    Yeah, I can certainly just clone existing plugin projects (I've built plenty of them), set up a new appian-plugin.xml, do manual builds and copy the jar to <appian_home>/admin/plugins but the question then is why would Appian remove a perfectly functional piece of tooling? I think I'll raise this as a support case just in case the omission is inadvertent.

    Thanks,

    peter.lewis
    peter.lewis
    Employee
    January 14, 2022

    Yeah it's probably worth asking - honestly it's possible it wasn't used that frequently and we may have thought that no one was using it! If nothing else it's useful for our support team to know that you liked it and used it [emoticon:c4563cd7d5574777a71c318021cbbcc8]

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