This tutorial details all the necessary steps to write a full-blown plugin for Elisa. With its modular architecture, it is pretty easy to extend Elisa's features without having to fiddle with the core code. As a didactic example, we are going to write an Amazon plugin for Elisa step by step. Each part of the tutorial will detail an aspect of what is needed to get it to work.
The first part of the tutorial presents how to write a basic Graphical User Interface for our plugin.
The second part explains how to retrieve actual content (resources) and display it in our GUI.
The third part deals with the addition of metadata retrieval features to make our plugin complete.
Going through all the steps of these three parts should teach you how to write a full-blown plugin the fun way. The concepts presented are generic enough to be easily reused when writing virtually any plugin for Elisa.