The RHQ plugin system is called AMPS or Advanced Management Plugin System. Don't blame me over the name... Mazz came up with it. Anyway, why is it advanced? On the outside it seems pretty plain vanilla. You've got an XML file to define the metadata and you write some code to do the work. Pretty typical. And it may not seem all that sexy, but I do think it demonstrates some new enhancements to a field that's had some pretty tough extension models to date. Its not perfect and we have plans to enhance, tune, simplify, etc. but I'll use a couple posts to cover some of the high-level details and hopefully some of you will find it useful in building your own RHQ plugins.

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