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This chapter will outline how to contribute your own Server type with some default behavior.
You might be asking yourself why you'd need to extend this framework if JMX is a standard. Perhaps you want a connection to be automatically created after some specific action, or perhaps you want your connection wizard to do more than simply set a host and port. JBoss, for example, requires setting some credentials on the client machine, but using JBoss classes to do it. This requires that the connection have access to JBoss jars.
To create your own JMX Connection type, you must use the org.jboss.tools.jmx.core.MBeanServerConnectionProvider extension point. This point takes one child, a connectionProvider with a class that implements org.jboss.tools.jmx.core.IConnectionProvider.
An IConnectionProvider is responsible for creation and deletion of IConnectionWrapper objects. It must also keep a list of listeners that it is expected to inform when a connection is added or removed from its list.
Each IConnectionWrapper is expected to handle running arbitrary JMX runnables or getting a "Root" object representing all JMX nodes. There are some utility methods the IConnectionWrapper can make use of.
There are two extension points currently approved for use in the UI
org.jboss.tools.jmx.ui.providerUI - provide an icon, id, displayable name, and wizardPage class for creation of new connections
org.jboss.tools.jmx.ui.attribute.controls - allows you to map class types to some Control to present them in the MBean Editor
We hope, this guide helped you to get started with the JBoss JMX Tools. Besides, for additional information you are welcome on JBoss forum.