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Plugins can be written for the Server, SmartClient and WebClient, see IServerPlugin, ISmartClientPlugin and IClientPlugin from API docsresp. in the Public Java API documentation.
A plugin is capable to expose Java methods as JavaScript functions, which can seen/used by Servoy developers via the Solution Navigator.
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Many plugins shipped with servoy are opensource and even shipping with Java source inside, see for example the mail.jar plugin file in default install 'plugins' directory.
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Servoy allows usage of regular Java Beans in SmartClient, to utilize some databinding they can implement IServoyAwareBean (or subclasses) see API docs.
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To make beans for both Web and SmartClient the IServoyBeanFactory can be utilized, see the source of the DBTreeView bean (which is shipping with Servoy)
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For information on the usable Servoy API, see the Servoy API documentation online.
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Checkout the comprehensive overview for building plugins and beans for Servoy.
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Besides default extensions shipping with Servoy, many Third-party extensions are available at ServoyForge.
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In Smart and WebClient its possible to call any static Java method, like
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Since Servoy incorporates Apache Tomcat its possible to deploy .war (Web Application Resource) in application_server/server/webapps.
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When a war requires database access, it's possible to get a database as datasource via JNDI, all the database servers are exposed in the global JNDI scope as "jdbc/dbservername" and should be accessed in current context via a <resource-ref>, see Tomcat manual for more details.
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Servoy developer is another plugin ontop of the the eclipse.org framework.
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