= Plugin Development Guide =

DeepaMehta is made to be extensible by 3rd-party developers. Developers extend DeepaMehta by developing plugins (resp. "modules" resp. "applications" which is all synonymous).

== Setup the development environment ==

The best way to start with DeepaMehta plugin development is to build DeepaMehta from source. This way you get a hot-deploy environment, that is DeepaMehta redeploys your plugin automatically once you compile it. This is very handy while development.

Requirements:
* **Java 6** (newer versions //might// work as well, older Java versions do //not// work)
* **Maven 3** (Maven 2 does //not// work)
* **Git**

Build DeepaMehta from source:
{{{
git clone git://github.com/jri/deepamehta.git
cd deepamehta
mvn install -P all
}}}

== A very simple plugin ==