The following chapter describes the general steps to take for creating an ITE toolkit extension with custom defined components and actions. This chapter begins by listing the requirements followed by showing the necessary steps for creating an ITE and remote control extension. The ITE toolkit extension is described in Section 2.2, “ITE extension” and the implementation for the remote control extension in Section 2.3, “Remote control extension”.
Extension examples with source code can be found in the subdirectory
examples/development/extension/src/
of the installation.
In general you always have to extend two things:
The ITE toolkit extension – by writing your own toolkit plug-in: This will tell the ITE which new components and actions are available.
The remote control extension – by writing your own fragment: This part actually performs the actions on the new components.
In this chapter all used directory names are located in the installation directory as long as nothing else is specified.