The process of adding and removing plugins is different from adding or removing plugins from your plugin chains. This process removes the plugins from memory so that they cannot be executed or included in one of your plugin chains.

Restarting your server If you are adding or removing plugins, you must restart your server for the changes to take effect.

Adding plugins

• In a text editor, edit your /WEB-INF/plugin.properties file which is used by blojsom to associate a plugin short name with the associated Java class implementing the plugin. The format of the file is as follows:

  plugin-short-name=fully-qualified Java class file
  

• For example:

  whizbang=some.package.name.plugins.WhizbangPlugin
  

• Restart your server for the plugin(s) to be made available to users of your blojsom installation.

Removing plugins

• In a text editor, edit your /WEB-INF/plugin.properties file which is used by blojsom to associate a plugin short name with the associated Java plugin.
• Remove the line(s) containing the plugin(s) you would like to remove from your blojsom installation.
• Restart your server for the plugins you removed from your blojsom installation to be removed from memory.
• Inform users that they should remove any plugin(s) short names from their respective plugin chains.

Individual blog plugin configuratin Even if your users do not remove the plugin short names from their plugin chain configuration, blojsom will not execute the removed plugins.