Tigase Development Guide
Writing Plugin Code

The class declaration should look like this (assuming you implement just packet processor):

public class Message extends AnnotatedXMPPProcessor
   implements XMPPProcessorIfc

The first thing to create is the plugin ID. This is a unique string which you put in the configuration file to tell the server to load and use the plugin. In most cases you can use XMLNS if the plugin wants packets with elements with a very specific name space. Of course there is no guarantee there is no other packet for this specific XML element too. As I want to process all messages and I don’t want to spend whole day on thinking about a cool ID let’s say our ID is: 'message'.

A plugin informs about it’s using static ID field and @Id annotation placed on class:

@Id(ID)
public class Message extends AnnotatedXMPPProcessor
   implements XMPPProcessorIfc {
  protected static final String ID = "message";
}

As I mentioned before such a plugin receives only this kind of packets for processing which it is interested in. My plugin is interested only in packets with <message/> elements and only if they are in "jabber:client" namespace. To indicate all supported elements and namespaces we have to add 2 more annotations:

@Id(ID)
@Handles({
  @Handle(path={ "message" },xmlns="jabber:client")
})
public class Message extends AnnotatedXMPPProcessor
   implements XMPPProcessorIfc {
  private static final String ID = "message";
}