Creating a native plugin
In the previous recipe, we saw the site plugin. ElasticSearch also allows you to create a more powerful type of plugin, the: native JAR plugins.
Native plugins allow you to extend several aspects of the ElasticSearch server, but this requires a good knowledge of Java. Because these plugins are compiled through the JVM bytecode, they are generally very fast. In this recipe, we will see how to set up a working environment in order to develop native plugins.
Getting ready
You will need a working ElasticSearch node, a Maven build tool, and optionally a Java IDE. The code of this recipe is available in the chapter12/simple_plugin directory, kept in the code bundle of the chapter on the Packt Publishing website.
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