To use your plugins, you have to provide the paths to the directories containing plugins for the application with the Spring property plugins.directories.

If you put a zipped plugin in there, it will be automatically extracted on the first start of the application and the extracted directory is used afterwards. See Section 4.3, “Build and Run the Applications” for how to configure and run CoreMedia Java applications.

Normally, if a plugin could not be started, an ERROR is logged and the application continues without the respective plugin. With the property plugins.required-plugins it is possible to abort the application start if one of the listed plugins is missing or could not be started.