Introduction

There are two types of plugin:

• Channel plugins.
  These generate feeds for web sites or other data sources that don't already have one.
• Application plugins
  These add new features to Awasu.

Plugins can be written in any language you want. The only requirement is that you be able to read a Windows INI file and can write to the console. Popular choices are scripting languages such as Python or Perl but you could also use Java, C++ or C#!

If you want to use plugins written in a scripting language you will need to have the appropriate scripting engine installed. Here are where you can get some of them:

• The home page for Python is www.python.org. You will also need the WIN32 extensions to be able to read INI files.
• ActivePerl can be obtained from ActiveState.
• The Java Runtime Environment can be downloaded from Sun.