Plug-in support in iSeries Navigator

iSeries™ Navigator Plug-in support provides a convenient way to integrate your own functions and applications into a single user interface: iSeries Navigator.

These new functions and applications can vary in complexity from simple new behaviors to whole applications. Regardless of what specific new ability your plug-in provides, integrating it into iSeries Navigator provides several important benefits. For example, bundling common system tasks into a single location in iSeries Navigator can dramatically simplify common administration and operation functions. Also, iSeries Navigator's GUI interface ensures that your integrated functions can be completed easily, and with only minimal prerequisite skills.

• What you can do with a plug-in
  Plug-ins are sets of predefined classes and methods that iSeries Navigator will start in response to a particular user action.
• How plug-ins work
  A detailed example of how iSeries Navigator will locate a new plug-in and install it in a new configuration
• Plug-in requirements
  iSeries Navigator plug-in requirements differ according to the programming language that you use.
• Distribute plug-ins
  Deliver your plug-in code to iSeries Navigator users by including it with your i5/OS^® applications.
• Identifying plug-ins to iSeries Navigator
  Plug-ins identify themselves to iSeries Navigator by supplying information in the Windows^® registry when the plug-in software is installed on the Windows^® desktops of your users.