Set the extension product informationLast Updated December 16, 2024
You provide product information about an extension by setting properties when you instantiate the
Extension
object in the program that manages the extension. The product information that you set appears in the vSphere Client
.You can instantiate the
Extension
data object in the MyManager.java
class. Your solution can set the Extension
product information properties directly in MyManager.java
, but you can set the property values in configuration files that the program that manages the extension accesses.- Provide a description for the extension by creating an instance of theDescriptiondata object and passing it toExtension.
- Provide a version number for the extension by calling theExtension.setVersion()method.
- Change the value of the version property inMyManager.java.
- Provide information about the vendor of the extension by calling theExtension.setCompany()method.You can set thevendorproperty by adding the following line of code toMyManager.java.
- Provide URLs to Web pages for the product and for the vendor of the extension by creating an instance of theExtExtendedProductInfodata object and passing it toExtension.You can set thecompanyUrlproperty forExtExtendedProductInfoby calling theExtExtendedProductInfo.setCompanyUrl()method inMyManager.java:
- Save, build and deploy your solution.
- View your changes in thevSphere Client.If you edit the values of theversion,company,companyUrl, andproductUrlproperties, your changes appear in theSummarytab of your solution.
You provided product information about an extension by setting properties in the
Extension
and ExtExtendedProductInfo
data objects.Set the extension name and localization information.