From the version 7.0 of Talend Studio, Talend Component Kit becomes the recommended framework to use to develop components. This framework is being introduced to ensure that newly developed components can be deployed and executed both in on-premise/local and cloud/big data environments. From that new approach comes the need to provide a complete yet unique and compatible way of developing components. With the Component Kit, custom components are entirely implemented in Java. To help you get started with a new custom component development project, a Starter is available. Using it, you will be able to generate the skeleton of your project. By importing this skeleton in a development tool, you can then implement the components layout and execution logic in Java. With the previous javajet framework, metadata, widgets and configurable parts of a custom component were specified in XML. With the Component Kit, they are now defined in the Configuration (for example, LoggerProcessorConfiguration) Java class of your development project. Note that most of this configuration is transparent if you specified the Configuration Model of your components right before generating the project from the Starter. Any undocumented feature or option is considered not supported by the Component Kit framework. You can find examples of output in Studio or Cloud environments in the Gallery. javajet Component Kit javajet Component Kit javajet Component Kit javajet Component Kit javajet Component Kit javajet Component Kit or Component Kit javajet Component Kit javajet Component Kit javajet Component Kit javajet Component Kit javajet Component Kit javajet Component Kit javajet Component Kit javajet Component Kit javajet Component Kit javajet Component Kit or Previously, the execution of a custom component was described through several javajet files: _begin.javajet, containing the code required to initialize the component. _main.javajet, containing the code required to process each line of the incoming data. _end.javajet, containing the code required to end the processing and go to the following step of the execution. With the Component Kit, the entire execution flow of a component is described through its main Java class (for example, LoggerProcessor) and through services for reusable parts. Each type of component has its own execution logic. The same basic logic is applied to all components of the same type, and is then extended to implement each component specificities. The project generated from the starter already contains the basic logic for each component. Talend Component Kit framework relies on several primitive components. All components can use @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy annotations to initialize or release some underlying resource at the beginning and the end of a processing. In distributed environments, class constructor are called on cluster manager nodes. Methods annotated with @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy are called on worker nodes. Thus, partition plan computation and pipeline tasks are performed on different nodes. All the methods managed by the framework must be public. Private methods are ignored. The framework is designed to be as declarative as possible but also to stay extensible by not using fixed interfaces or method signatures. This allows to incrementally add new features of the underlying implementations. To ensure that the Cloud-compatible approach of the Component Kit framework is respected, some changes were introduced on the implementation side, including: The File mode is no longer supported. You can still work with URIs and remote storage systems to use files. The file collection must be handled at the component implementation level. The input and output connections between two components can only be of the Flow or Reject types. Other types of connections are not supported. Every Output component must have a corresponding Input component and use a dataset. All datasets must use a datastore. To get started with the Component Kit framework, you can go through the following documents: Learn the basics about Talend Component Kit Create and deploy your first Component Kit component Learn about the Starter Start implementing components Integrate a component to Talend Studio Check some examples of components built with Talend Component Kit

To be able to see and use your newly developed components, you need to integrate them to the right application. Currently, you can deploy your components to Talend Studio as part of your development process to iterate on them: Iterating on component development with Talend Studio You can also share your components externally and install them using a component archive (.car) file. Sharing and installing components in Talend Studio Check the versions of the framework that are compatible with your version of Talend Studio in this document. If you were used to create custom components with the javajet framework and want to get to know the new approach and main differences of the Component Kit framework, refer to this document.