Extension

Hybris is collection of several extensions. Extensions is address to specific functionality.

An extension is unit of functionality in hybris. It is an encapsulated piece of the hybris Commerce Suite that can contain business logic, type definitions, configuration etc. Extensions are independent of one another by default.

Structure of an Extension

A basic extension contains the following directories and files:

you can write a custom extension as per your requirement that use or override existing extensions functionalities. You can create your own extension So every extension in hybris contains

Bussiness logic
type defintion(items.xml)
web application
hmc configuration

Hybris provides an ant-based extension generator and provide extension templates for specific function. you can choose any one as per your requirement.

Extension generation Command :

ant extgen

Extension Templates

Hybris provide following extension templates

yempty : structure for an extension with a core and web module. It is default extensions.
ycommercewebservices : for customize web services extension
ycockpit : for customize of cockpit functionalities
ybackoffice : for customize backoffice functionalities extension
yaddon : for customize for Accelerator AddOns

Create new Extension

Create a new extension skeleton
Reference the new extension in the localextensions.xml file.
Build the Hybris package .

After that , you can start write to your business logic in extension.

Step by Step

Open cmd
Go to {YourPath}/bin/platform and run setantenv.bat for set ant path.

for example: C:\HYBRIS-1808\hybris\bin\platform

3. type ant extgen command. This will ask you for template

Select yempty for the extension template
Enter the name of the extension. for example: myfirstextension
Enter the package prefix . for example: com.test.myfirstextension

4. The Ant script will create a structure of extension.

{YourPath}/bin/custom/myfirstextension
C:\HYBRIS-1808\hybris\bin\custom\myfirstextension
Append the new extension to config/localextensions.xml
open C:\HYBRIS-1808\hybris\config\localextensions.xml file and add new extension
<extension name="myfirstextension"/>

5. Run ant all on cmd

C:\HYBRIS-1808\hybris\bin\platform> ant clean all

6. Start the hybris server hybrisserver.bat

C:\HYBRIS-1808\hybris\bin\platform> hybrisserver.bat

7. Open HAC (hybris administration console) http://localhost:9001/hac

Default Login credential

user name : admin
password : nimda

8. For checking Installed Extensions, Go to platform->Extensions or http://localhost:9001/platform/extensions

9. search your extension "myfirstextension" and you will get your extension and webroot will be available for myfirstextension

10. if we do not need a web module for this basic extension, we can disable this in

myfirstextension/extensioninfo.xml

Comment 

11. Stop server (ctrl+c) and press y Run ant all and start server

12. Go to browser http://localhost:9001/hac and login again and Go to platform- >Extensions and check webroot for myfirstextension. it will be empty

13. Import the generated extension into your Eclipse and start work on new extension.

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