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Prerequisites

You must have set up the plug-in, and defined <finder> elements and enumerations.

Procedure

1 Map a Java class from the plugged-in technology or from the plug-in implementation to a JavaScript class.

The SolarSystemEventGenerator class defines the events that Orchestrator can invoke in the solar system

application. The solar system vso.xml file maps the event generator class to a JavaScript class named

_SolarSystemEventGenerator. By setting the strict attribute to true, Orchestrator can only call the

methods from the SolarSystemEventGenerator class that are mapped in the vso.xml file. To allow scripting

to instantiate a class you use the create attribute.

<scripting-objects>

java-class="com.vmware.orchestrator.api.sample.solarsystem.SolarSystemEventGenerator"

strict="true">

<description>The entry point to generate events</description>

[...]

</object>

[...]

</scripting-objects>

2 (Optional) If necessary, denote the JavaScript object as a singleton object.

In the solar system example, SolarSystemEventGenerator is a singleton object. The plug-in adaptor can

only create a single instance of the SolarSystemEventGenerator class. You can only call the methods of the

SolarSystemEventGenerator JavaScript object and cannot instantiate the class in Orchestrator scripts.

<singleton script-name="SolarSystemEventGenerator"

datasource="solar-datasource"/>

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