Building plug-ins, fragments and features using update site editor

Building an update site is a relatively simple task and most of the work is done on the Features page of the update site editor.

 

Features added to the Managing the Site section will be built recursively when you press Build All.  This means that the features and all the plug-ins and fragments they include will be built in one batch operation.  The feature JARs end up in the features/ folder of your site project and the plug-in JARs are placed in the plugins/ folder of your site project.

If you would like to build one feature, select a feature and press the Build button..

If you are dealing with features that include other features, only the root feature needs to be listed, since its child features will automatically be built.

Features that have environment constraints need to specify environments in the Feature Environments section. Select a feature and fill in the values, or press Synchronize... button and let the environment be copied from feature manifest to the site.

For easy browsing of your features on your update site, you can create categories and organize your published features in these categories.  A feature may appear in >= 0 categories.

To preview on what your web site would look like, save the site.xml file and open the index.html file at the root of your site project in a browser.