New Dev Need Help

[wubs]

I'm new to Java and PMS and want to improve some plugins. I have a lot of experience with c++ and networking, but this stuff is new to me.

Anyway, I downloaded/installed the following.

jdk-6u22-windows-i586.exe
netbeans-6.9.1-ml-windows.exe
MovieInfo SourceCode 31082009.zip (I want to fix it since it is broke and doesn't do things I would like it to do..)

Using netbeans, I created a new java library project called movieinfo and closed it.

I copied/pasted the source code from the mediainfo dir within the movieinfo zip into the src dir of the project I created.

I reloaded the the project I created in netbeans and see some errors..

So, I copied the pms.jar file to the main project directory I created with netbeans.

I added the pms.jar library to the project and saw 99% of all error messages go away. The only error message I see is the line that says "package net.pms.movieinfo;". The IDE says "Incorrect Package" I don't know how to fix this..

But, I tried to compile and it said successful.

I copied the created jar file to the plugins with the config file this plugin needs and nothing..

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Is this specific to the Package error I see in the IDE or am I compiling with the wrong versions of the tools?

[wubs]

FYI,

Ok.. I found out why it was complaining about Incorrect Package.. I guess I needed the source code to be in specific directory stucture.. net.pms.movieinfo and net.pms.movieinfo.plugins.

I recompiled without any errors or warnings and still don't see it running..

I don't see PMS loading the plugin within the trace either.. It doesn't give any error messages why it doesn't load it..

[taconaut]

You need to include a file called plugin containing the package.class in your jar for pms to load it. Have a look in a plugin jar for an example.

[wubs]

Thanks.. One step forward.. Two steps backwards.. It now sees the plugin, but complains about not finding the class for the plugin.. I'm debugging right now to see what I broke.

[wubs]

Ahh, got it.. Thanks.. Now to start learning.