Testing your plugin

As you may recall, the purpose of our first plugin was to discover when a plugin is loaded. Issue a reload command by typing the following command:

>reload

You will notice that CraftBukkit will automatically disable and re-enable your plugin as shown in the following screenshot:

This time, you will see the Hello World! message once your plugin is enabled. If exactly one player is online, then it will say hello to that player. Let's observe this by logging onto the server and issuing the reload command from in-game. Open your Minecraft client and connect to your server. From in-game, first issue the following command:

/plugins

You will be given a list of all the plugins that are installed. For now, there is only one plugin given in the following screenshot:

Now that there is one player on the server we can test the plugin by reloading the server. From in-game issue the following command:

/reload

We notice that both in-game and in the console we see the Hello Codisimus...