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Creating Protege plug-in manifests and JAR files 

A Protege plug-in JAR file can be built with the standard "jar" Java Archive Tool. (See the documentation on Sun's Java Technology Web site for more information about [http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jar/index.html working with JAR and manifest files]). A JAR file can contain one or more Protege plug-ins. The manifest for a plug-in JAR file must contain a section which describes the plug-in and every manifest must start with the following line: 

<code>Manifest-Version: 1.0</code> 

After this line, you must put a blank line followed by any number of Protege plug-in entries. The entries must be separated by blank lines and the last line in the file must be a blank line. Examples of manifest entries are given below. 

'''tab widget plug-in:'''

<code>Name: edu/stanford/smi/protege/ui/ClsesTab.class 
Tab-Widget: True</code> 

'''slot widget plug-in:'''

The following is the standard, simple manifest entry for a slot widget plug-in.

<code>Name: edu/stanford/smi/protegex/imagemap/ImageMapToSymbolWidget.class 
Slot-Widget: True</code>

The following entry is more specialized. It will cause to system to assign the declared slot widget plug-in as the widget for any slot which has single cardinality, type Instance, and has allowed classes of "URI".

<code>Name: edu/stanford/smi/protegex/rdf/uri/widget/URIFieldWidget.class 
Slot-Widget: True 
Default-Widget: True 
Default-Widget-For-Cardinality: Single 
Default-Widget-For-Type: Instance 
Default-Widget-For-Allowed-Class: URI</code> 

'''back-end plug-in:'''

<code>Name: edu/stanford/db/protegex/storage/rdf/RDFKnowledgeBaseFactory.class 
Storage-Factory: True</code> 

'''project plug-in''':

<code>Name: examples/projectplugin/MenuItemInserter.class 
Project-Plugin: True</code> 

'''createproject plug-in''':

<code>Name: examples/createprojectplugin/FooCreator.class 
Create-Project-Plugin: True</code> 

'''export plug-in''':

<code>Name: examples/exportplugin/FooExporter.class 
Export-Plugin: True

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