Where to Start

Most customizations aim to control one or more of the data conversion or sorting operations. Guidelines are provided in the following sections to show you how each of these operations can be customized. Following these guidelines will ensure that your customizations are as simple and effective as possible.

When you have written your custom plug-ins, you need to configure them and ensure that the Java classes are available at run-time.Configuration was described in Domain Plug-in Configuration. The Java source files for your custom plug-in classes are added to the web application in exactly the same way as the Java source code files for your custom exception classes (see Custom Exception Classes): they are placed in their appropriate package folders in your <client-dir>/<custom>/javasource folder, (where <custom> is the name of a custom component).