Summary

You are now familiar with most of the complicated aspects of the Bukkit API. With this knowledge, you can program almost any type of Bukkit plugin. Try putting this knowledge to use by creating a new plugin. You can perhaps try to write an announcement plugin that will rotate through a list of messages that need to be broadcast on a server. Think about all the Bukkit API concepts and how you can use them to add new features to the plugin. For example, with an announcement plugin, you can do the following:

• Add commands to allow an administrator to add messages that need to be announced

• Add permissions to control who can add messages and even who can see the messages that are announced

• Add an EventHandler method to listen for when players log in so that a message can be sent to them

• Add a config.yml file to set how often messages should be announced

• Add a save file to save and load all the messages that will be announced

• Use the Bukkit scheduler to repeatedly broadcast the messages while...