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Plugin Content

There are two possible ways of organizing plugin content:

  1. A plugin consisting of one .jar file placed in the plugins directory:

    The archive should contain the configuration file (META-INF/plugin.xml), plugin icon files (META-INF/pluginIcon*.svg), and the classes that implement the plugin functionality. The configuration file specifies the plugin name, description, version, vendor, the supported IntelliJ IDEA version, plugin components, actions and action groups, and action user interface placement. See the Plugin Icon File page for more information about plugin icon SVG files.

    .IntelliJIDEAx0/
      plugins/
        sample.jar/
          com/foo/...
          ...
          ...
          META-INF/
            plugin.xml
            pluginIcon.svg
            pluginIcon_dark.svg
    
  2. Plugin files located in a .jar file that is placed in the lib folder:

    .IntelliJIDEAx0/
      plugins/
        Sample/
          lib/
            libfoo.jar
            libbar.jar
            Sample.jar/
              com/foo/...
              ...
              ...
              META-INF/
                plugin.xml
                pluginIcon.svg
                pluginIcon_dark.svg
    

    All jars from the lib folder are automatically added to the classpath.