Building Minecraft Server Modifications - Second Edition

Making and calling new methods

Let's create a new method that will broadcast a message to the server. The following diagram labels the various parts of a method in case you are not familiar with them:

Create a new method named broadcastToServer. We will place it in the MyFirstBukkitPlugin class under the onEnable method. We only want to call this method from inside the MyFirstBukkitPlugin class so that the access modifier will be private. If you want to call this method from other classes in the plugin, you can remove the modifier or change it to public. The method will not return anything and thus will have a return type of void. Finally, the method ...