elasticsearch/docs/extend/index.md

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Create Elasticsearch plugins [plugin-authors]

{{es}} plugins are modular bits of code that add functionality to {{es}}. Plugins are written in Java and implement Java interfaces that are defined in the source code. Plugins are composed of JAR files and metadata files, compressed in a single zip file.

There are two ways to create a plugin:

Creating text analysis plugins with the stable plugin API : Text analysis plugins can be developed against the stable plugin API to provide {{es}} with custom Lucene analyzers, token filters, character filters, and tokenizers.

Creating classic plugins : Other plugins can be developed against the classic plugin API to provide custom authentication, authorization, or scoring mechanisms, and more.