Tutorial: Create a Lutece plugin step by step

The Lutece MOOC

This course will teach you all the basics of development with Lutece. You will discover:

the general architecture of Lutece with its Front Office and its Back Office.
using the code generator to create your first plugin
standards, best practices and rules for producing a compliant code
the assembly of a site containing several plugins
basic monitoring of your site

Requirements

The skills required for this course are:

good knowledge and practice of the Java language.
good knowledge and practice of HTML and CSS.

Other skills can be beneficial such as:

good knowledge and practice of Spring IoC.
good knowledge and practice of Freemarker.

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Access the Lutece Mooc

The classic tutorial

Otherwise, a classic tutorial is available on github. The goal of this tutorial is to make a Lutèce plugin : a basic application using the Lutece portal services.

This tutorial offers different steps :

Initialization
- Installation of the prerequisites
- use of the plugin-WIZARD application to easily create the skeleton of our project
- launch of the plugin within a lutece site
Customization of the plugin
- modification of the pages of the application
- modification of the data model
- launch of the plug-in within a lutece site using other plugins
Using services from other plugins
- added a voting/comment feature to the plugin's pages
- adding a REST webservice
- add the implementation of a cache system
Finalization of the plugin
- Formatting, testing, packaging

Go to the tutorial

github

The tutorial is available on github at the following address : https://github.com/lutece-platform/lutece-dev-plugin-example/blob/develop/TUTORIAL_Lutece-plugin-example.md

The sample application generated during this turorial is also available : https://github.com/lutece-platform/lutece-dev-plugin-example

The GIT branches of this project are used as follows :