A publisher is written by extending the abstract Publisher class (see Publisher API) and overriding any methods that must be implemented to achieve the functionality required by the publisher.

In all but the simplest of publishers it is likely that other classes must be written to perform the functionality required of the publisher.

The considerations of which methods must be overridden are discussed further within this section.

After the class is written and compiled, you can deploy it in the Diffusion™ server by specifying its details in etc/Publishers.xml

Publishers can also be deployed as a DAR file, sidestepping etc/Publishers.xml

See the section on testing for information about how to test the publisher.