Prerequisites

What you will need:

An suitable IDE supporting maven. We recommend using either IntelliJ or Eclipse.

An internet connection for downloading the Waterdog API Artifacts

Structure

The base structure of a plugin is really simple.

Required parts:

a plugin.yml file located in the programs resources folder.

a base class extending the Plugin class and overwriting it's onEnable() method

1 - The Base class of the Plugin, mostly named after the plugin itself or from what the plugin is supposed to do. 

2 - The plugin.yml file containing very basic information on the plugin. 

3 - A configuration file that the user can use to easily change plugin settings. 

4 - The base maven file. required to build the plugin and compile it to a runnable file.