Development Quick Start Guide - Programisci/jenkins-control-plugin GitHub Wiki

Environment preparation

In order to start you will need:

IntelliJ IDEA (Community edition is fine)
UI Designer plugin for Idea
Setup platform SDK according to IntelliJ SDK DevGuide/Setting Up a Development Environment

Plugin development (without maven)

Checkout code from plugin repository using Idea
Project should be already configured what could be missing is (all in project structure)

Project SDK for plugin probably needs changing. Choose one you've configured during environment preparation
In libraries panel, add jars for all libraries which are missing

Create Run configuration of type Plugin

as JRE set IntelliJ IDEA
Use classpath of module jenkins-control-plugin

Once this is all done, you should be able to run the plugin.

Building plugin

Update information in src/main/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml
In menu select Build/Prepare plugin for deployment
Balloon popup should appear with information where zip archive for distribution was saved.