Developing Plugins for JOSM

This page gives a short introduction for developers how to create, deploy and develop plugins for JOSM. Any Questions left? Ask at the developers mailinglist.

Table of Contents

1. Setting up the environment
2. Building
3. Testing
4. JOSM plugins
   1. A POJO as entry point
   2. Naming the plugin
   3. The plugin interface
   4. The JOSM API
   5. Accessing the local file system
5. Packaging a plugin
   1. A plugin is deployed as a single jar
   2. The manifest file for a JOSM plugin
6. Translating a plugin
7. Publishing a plugin
   1. Managing a plugin in OSM.org SVN
      1. Updating a plugin in SVN
8. Legal stuff (Imis opinion)