Extending CAST AIP

CAST AIP can be enhanced with an extension to provide additional analysis and measurement capabilities both for technologies that are not supported "out-of-the-box" and for technologies already supported in CAST AIP.

What are extensions

• Release types
• Contributor types
• Modification of extension IDs during deployment of CAST Extend

Infrastructure available to manage extensions

• CAST Console
• CAST Extend website
• CAST Extension Downloader
• CAST Extend API
• ExtendCli
  • ExtendCli - Release Notes
    • ExtendCli - Release Notes - 3.2
    • ExtendCli - Release Notes - 3.1
    • ExtendCli - Release Notes - 3.0
    • ExtendCli - Release Notes - 2.1
    • ExtendCli - Release Notes - 2.0
    • ExtendCli - Release Notes - 1.1
    • ExtendCli - Release Notes - 1.0

Download an extension

• Download an extension using Console
• Download an extension using CAST Extend website
• Download an extension using CAST Extension Downloader
• Download an extension using CAST Extend API

Install an extension

Create a new extension

• Prerequisites and top-tips for creating a custom extension
  • How to publish documentation for CAST User Community extensions
  • Managing ID ranges for custom extensions
  • Extension description file
  • Extension tags
  • Configuring an icon for your extension
  • Auto-distributing specific CAST AIP configuration files with a custom extension
• Creating a custom extension to share an add-on to CAST AIP
• Creating or modifying a custom extension to exploit an existing CAST analyzer with the CAST AIP Extension SDK
• Creating or modifying a custom extension using the CAST Universal Analyzer framework
  • What is the CAST Universal Analyzer and Framework
  • Universal Analyzer language packages
    • Configuring an external plugin to enrich the results for your Universal Analyzer language
    • Configuring code pre-processing for your Universal Analyzer language
    • How to configure a language for the CAST Engineering Dashboard
    • xxxCastMetrics.xml - defining new metrics for a UA language
    • xxxInformationTracking.xml file
    • xxxLanguagePattern.xml - defining how to analyze a language
    • xxxMetaModel.xml file
  • Appendix - Special Cases
  • Ensuring your existing Universal Analyzer extension files are compatible with CAST AIP
  • Configuring CAST to accept your Universal Analyzer language package
• Appendix - CAST Server Manager user components - PCK
  • Creating a new custom component
  • Check the installation of your component
• Appendix - Importing an additional technology not supported by CAST AIP
  • Configuring UAX - UAXDIRECTORY - project files
    • Universal Importer - Advanced configuration

Upload an extension

Validate an extension

Manage uploaded extensions

CAST Extend local server

• CAST Extend local server - Release Notes
  • CAST Extend local server for Microsoft Windows - Release Notes
    • CAST Extend local server for Microsoft Windows - Release Notes - 2.2
    • CAST Extend local server for Microsoft Windows - Release Notes - 2.1
    • CAST Extend local server for Microsoft Windows - Release Notes - 2.0
    • CAST Extend local server for Microsoft Windows - Release Notes - 1.3
    • CAST Extend local server for Microsoft Windows - Release Notes - 1.2
    • CAST Extend local server for Microsoft Windows - Release Notes - 1.1
    • CAST Extend local server for Microsoft Windows - Release Notes - 1.0
• CAST Extend local server - Prerequisites
• Install CAST Extend local server
• Manage CAST Extend local server via Administration Center
• Upgrade CAST Extend local server
• Uninstall CAST Extend local server
• Update CAST Extend local server with new content
• Advanced configuration of CAST Extend local server

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