What You Will Achieve
By the end of this tutorial the Mediakit plugin will be running on your Polarion server, ready to be added to work item forms.Prerequisites
- A running Polarion server with a version still supported by Nextedy
- Java 17, which the current Mediakit release requires
- Administrator access to the Polarion server filesystem, and permission to restart the Polarion service
- The Mediakit distribution package and, for production use, a licence file
Choose the Right Build
Mediakit ships two builds from the same codebase. They differ only in the servlet API they are compiled against, so pick the one matching your Polarion version.
Installing the wrong build leaves the plugin unable to start.
Install
1
Stop Polarion
Stop the Polarion service before changing anything on disk.
2
Copy the plugin
Copy the
com.nextedy.polarion.media folder from the distribution package into the extensions folder of your Polarion installation.3
Add the licence file
If you have a production licence, copy
mediakit_lic.json into the license folder of your Polarion installation. A 30-day evaluation licence is included in the download, so you can skip this step while evaluating.4
Clear the workspace configuration
Delete the
.config folder from your Polarion data workspace.5
Start Polarion
Start the Polarion service and wait for it to finish initialising.
Keep It Current
Install the latest release — currently 26.8.0. It is a security maintenance update: it refreshes the third-party libraries bundled with the plugin to address known vulnerabilities, and changes nothing else — no features, settings, or behaviour differ from the release before it. This matters in practice. Organisations that run vulnerability scanners across their Polarion installation will flag the older bundled libraries in earlier builds, so staying current avoids a finding that has already been fixed.Next Steps
Adding the Gallery
Configure which work item types show the gallery.