You can download and install custom components for use in the Integration perspective of Talend Studio.
Note that you can develop custom components using the
Talend
Component Kit framework. For more information, see Developing a
component using Talend Component Kit.
For further information about downloading and installing components from Talend Exchange, see
How to install and update a custom component.
The following procedure applies only to the external components.
The user component folder is the folder that contains the components you created and the
ones you downloaded from Talend Exchange. To
define it, proceed as follows:
Procedure
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In the tree view of the Preferences dialog box, expand the
Talend node and select Components.
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Enter the User component folder path or browse to the
folder that contains the custom components to be added to the
Palette of Talend Studio.
In order to be imported to the Palette of Talend Studio, the custom components have to be in separate folders located at the root
of the component folder you have defined.
Note: If some pieces of code need to be reused by the javajet files of your
custom components, you need to create a folder
templates under the user component folder and put
your reusable code there. For example, if there is a reusable code file
Log4jFileUtil.javajet under the folder
templates, you can reuse it in other javajet files
by adding <%@ include
file="../templates/Log4jFileUtil.javajet"%>.
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Click Apply to validate
the preferences. You can also click Apply and
Close to validate the preferences and close the dialog
box.
Talend Studio restarts and the external components are added to the
Palette.
This configuration is stored in the
metadata of the workspace. If the workspace of Talend Studio changes, you have to reset this configuration again.