Now your project is ready to be tested. You will learn in this step how to run the deployer using your extension from Eclipse

Tutorial Steps

• Step 1: Concepts & Requirements
• Step 2: Getting a deployer package
• Step 3: Creating a Java Project with Eclipse
• Step 4: Preparing the code structure
• Step 5: Implementing your Custom Module Class
• Step 6: Running the deployer from Eclipse
• Step 7: Debug your code from Eclipse
• Step 8: Other considerations and tips
  
  

Running the deployer from Eclipse

1. Stop your deployer if it's still running in your server
2. Locate the cd_deployer.jar within the "Referenced Libraries" in your Java project
3. Expand the jar file and locate the "Deployer" class (com.tridion.deployer.Deployer)
4. Right Click over it and click on "Run as ... >> Java Application"
   
5. Your deployer is now running from eclipse
   
6. You are ready to check your code. Drag & Drop the package (zip file) we saved in the very first step into your incoming folder
   
7. Check out your logs. Your logs will be located in the location defined in your logback.xml file, you can now open the cd_deployer.XXXXXX.log and check your logging there
   

8. Your wrote your first deployer extension using eclipse! It's time to debug your code.

Next Step: Debug your code from Eclipse

Move on to the next step of this tutorial: Debug your code from Eclipse

Update (2023-07-19): updated links.