Astah Plug-in Development Tutorial
The Astah Plug-in architecture makes it possible for you to empower Astah by adding your own functions.
You are able to add your own components like menu or extended views to Astah’s GUI.
In this tutorial, we will introduce you how to develop Plug-ins for Astah with a few samples.
Astah Plug-in architecture
When you launch Astah, it will load all of the plug-in files that are located in Astah installation folder.the directory below. The Plug-in files need to be .jar format and also to be OSGi bundle because Astah’s Plug-ins architecture uses OSGi Runtime.
We’ve prepared SDK for you to develop Astah Plug-ins with which automatically packages OSGi bundle and also allows you to use Plug-ins on Astah without storing them in the directory above during your plug-in development. Now let’s set up the environment to develop plug-ins!
System Requirements
Below is a list of software that you can develop plug-ins for.
System Requirements such as OS and Java for developing and running plug-ins are same as each software and versions’ system requirements.
Software | System Requirements |
|---|---|
| Astah Professional | See System Requirements |
| Astah UML | See System Requirements |
| Astah System Safety (ver6.0 and later) | See System Requirements |
| Astah SysML | See System Requirements |
Set up the development environment
Choose your edition: