Mastering Jenkins

Creating a Jenkins plugin skeleton

Prior to launching the IntelliJ IDE and beginning our plugin development, we will need to generate a plugin skeleton. The Jenkins development community has graciously provided this skeleton framework as a way to encourage developers to extend the Jenkins subsystems. The skeleton provides a foundational development structure for developing Jenkins plugins.

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The skeleton framework is simply a set of files, and folders, that contain the source code for a basic hello world plugin. When developing a plugin from scratch this handy framework gives us a great foundational layer that we can start from.

To generate the Jenkins plugin skeleton we will need to command Maven to create it.. The creation of the skeleton structure ...