State of the tools for write addon for thunderbird

Add-ons Development
#1

I am very new in developement of addons, but i wrote a addon for firefox and it was very simple and interesting using jpm.

now, I am interested in write one addon for thunderbird and my question is if I can use the JPM for this task. In other case what type of API, SDK or tool, we can use for create a addon for thunderbird and finally if in future jpm would be supported in thunderbird.

I searched a lot in MDN and i found a lot information, like “bootstraped extension”, “XUL overlay”, “restartless”, Addon SDK(“CFX” and “JPM”), but I am very confused, ¿which of these tecnologies can I use in thunderbird?

#2

XUL Overlay and Bootstrapped extensions should work fine with Thunderbird. The SDK and JPM probably won’t work as well, or at all, since most APIs were designed for Firefox.