Building a plug-in host

Hi!
I am looking for building a "plug-in host" for photoshop plug-ins. In other words: an application that accepts photoshop plug-ins
Did, someone know where I can find help on this topic?
I read that latest SDK from adobe don't expose API for building plug-in hosts meaning that I should use older SDK.. Is this true?
I am planning to use my application with photoshop filters plug-in and my on HDR Tone Mapper plug-in.
Thanks
Tom

I got into this area of forum due to a dilema of my own. I don't understand most of the terms and accromyns stated here but I will state my case and maybe it will even help you. I purchased and downloaded a thing called Redynamix. It was cheap and it downloaded quickly and it worked well. When downloaded, it went directly into my PSE7 and I used it immediately with great success. Soon, afterward I had to reformat my hard drive (not related to Dynamix) and then I moved up to PSE8 and have not been able to get Redyn into it. I write in case you might find Redynamix handy and know what you're doing to get it functional. If you do, let me know how the hell you did it. I'm not even sure I will be able to find this forum again so: nikon_35mm at yahoo would find me.

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Hello,
1.I'm trying to build a plug in ( for EM12c release 2 ) for my standalone java application - which exposes mbeans whom i want to collect some metrics with.
It's been a while since i started to build it - and I asked quite a lot of quesions about it - because the documnets supplied with the EDK and
the books ( ProgrammersGuide, ProgrammersReferece and the README file ) are not very clear to me ( I'm a newbie with EM in general .. )
So far some of the questions got answered and were very halpfull with this long process. BUT, there are some questions that nobody answered yet.
I'm quite "stuck" with it. I'm talking about the questions in : Re: A question about updating metadata files in plug in
I have a deadline for this plug in ( which is very close ..) so this the reason I post this new message.
I will appriciate any help about those questions .
2. Regarding the above, ( hoping to have an answered soon ..) I'm trying another way to buils this plug in:
In the README file there is this section( 3.6 : using MPCUI ) . I read the programmersReference ( chapter 8 ) and followed the instructions both in the README file and the ProgrammersReference .
For a begining, I just wanted to modify a small thing in the example supplied ( Demo Host System ) just to get started with something .
So i modify the file which contains the label ' Select member ... ' ( i don't remember the name of the file since the project is in my office , and I can't copy/paste ..- I think the the file icontians the name ' ConfirmationTarget .xml - it's one of the pages seen while adding a target ) .
I i changed it , i build the project ( using FlexBuilder) but did not use ANT as it's says in the README - the eclipse IDE build this file automatically
( HostSystem.swf in bin-debug dir as it says in the README ) . I copied this file to stage_dir/oms/metadata/mpcui .
i build a new plug in ( i incremented the version of it ) - no errors, everty thing was fine .I also copied this file to the oms server ( it wasn't there before )
and than run the commad ' emctl register oms ...' as it says in section 3.6 - and o got 'Success' eventually .
Now, when i opened the EM console , hoping to see tge change i made ( again , it's just a change of the title of the step while adding the target , and adding another menuitem to the 3 item that were alreay there ( CPU, FS, etc ) .
I believe wad i did is right- i mean changing in the right file and place ( there is no title like like this in any oter source file in the whole project )
but still, I didn't see any change! it seems execatly as it was befoer the change ..
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Thanks.

Regarding your question #2. Please read my response here carefully as it covers a number of different issues.
1. Ant is not required to build the SWF file in your plug-in. It is an OPTION. Section 8.27 describes the different development options using either Ant or FlexBuilder.
2. You do NOT need to ever copy a SWF file to any location under the OMS runtime. You need to include it in the stage area and then either build an OPAR or use emctl to incrementally update the deployed plug-in. It has to either be deployed as part of the plug-in deployment or updated incrementally using emctl register oms metadata. Section 8.27.2.6 describes the specific steps to do this incremental update.
Steps to update the SWF associated with demo_hostsample. These are covered in the README and in chapter 8.
1. deploy the demo_hostsample plug-in as described in the README
2. create an instance of the Host Sample target type through manually discovery (Add Targets->Add Non-Host Target Specifying Properties)
3. using the demo_hostsample.zip project in Flex Builder, modify some part of the code, for example, modify the line containing label="Current Status" to label="My New Label"
4. rebuild the SWF, to be sure you can to a Clean build of the demo_hostsample project
5. ensure there is an updated copy of the HostSample.swf under demo_hostsample\mpcui\bin-debug (NOT bin-release, unless you Exported A Release Build)
6. copy that updated HostSample.swf file to the location on the OMS machine where you unzipped and built the OPAR for the demo_hostsample plug-in
7. cd to the stage/oms/metadata/mpcui directory and replace the current HostSample.swf with the one you just built (BE SURE ITS THE UPDATED FILE)
8. execute the command "emctl register oms metadata -sysman_pwd sysman -pluginId oracle.sysman.ohs -service mpcui -file demo_hostsample_uimd_swf.xml (BE SURE TO USE THE CORRECT sysman_pwd)
At this point you should be able to go to the homepage for the Host Sample target you created and see the changes.

Added flex 4.1 SDK into Adobe Flex Builder 3 Plug-in on eclipse

Hi,
I need a little help
I Have added flex 4.1 SDK into Adobe Flex Builder 3 Plug-in on eclipse. when I try to compile an Application its trowing me an error " File not found: file:/Users/me/Documents/workspace/project_01/bin-debug/project_01.html"

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oops.. read the compile time later
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I am a developer with background of developing After Effects Plug In's.
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How could we ask for a feature to have somekind of built in GUI for Plug Ins?
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Hi,
Are you using a Carbon version of Helios? There aren't many of those posted (most are Cocoa), but I think the SDK distro is still offered in Carbon flavor.
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http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/834/cpsid_83481.html
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Hi Norio,
Thanks for replying!
FWIW, I was able to install Xcode 3.2.6 onto Lion (Mac OS X 10.7), using these instructions from Stack Overflow: <http://tinyurl.com/6xj8cjc>.
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http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/cairngorm3/trunk/libraries
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configuration variable 'compiler.library-path' value contains unknown token 'M2_REPO'    ContractTest        Unknown    Flex Problem
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As you know by now Cairngorm3 build is leveraging maven and flex-mojos.
To ease the developper workflow, to make things more consistent, to lower the maintenance cost, we decided :
* to stop copying the dependencies in the flashbuilder projects libs folder
* to leveraged the maven repository in the eclipse/flasbuilder projects configurations.
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Adobe LCDS is not opensource, as a consequence we can not host its artifacts in our repository.
If you want to build Cairngorm3 from the source, you may then either comment out IntegrationDMS from the parent library build or install these artifacts into your own private repo.(currently the version of lcds we build against is 3.1.0.273931) :
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.adobe.lcds -DartifactId=fds -Dversion=3.1.0.273931 -Dpackaging=swc -Dfile=<lcds-on-your-disk>/fds.swc
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.adobe.lcds -DartifactId=playerfds -Dversion=3.1.0.273931 -Dpackaging=swc -Dfile=<lcds-on-your-disk>/playerfds.swc
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.adobe.lcds -DartifactId=fds_rb -Dversion=3.1.0.273931 -Dclassifier=en_US -Dpackaging=swc -Dfile=<lcds-on-your-disk>/fds_rb.swc
Please note also that if you need to build cairngorm3 from maven, as mentioned in the flexmojos docs, there is one JAR (AIR development tools) that is packaged with the Flex SDK but is not open source.
Because of this, flexMojos cannot host this artifact. To build from source, you will need to install this artifact into your own private repo:
>mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.adobe.flex -DartifactId=adt -Dversion=<version-of-the-sdk> -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=adt.jar
This JAR is bundled with the Flex SDK, which is freely available from : http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Downloads
I'll do my best to update the wiki doc with this asap.

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