Server Plugins

Extend Sybase CEP Server's functionality with one or more plugins.

Each plugin is a linkable library, either a .so file on UNIX-like operating systems, or .dll on Microsoft Windows.

Before you read the rest of this chapter, read Plugins which provides an overview of how plugins work.

In the next few sections, we will describe:

• The types of events that the server plugins can handle.

• The generic plugin that Sybase CEP provides.

• How to use the generic plugin to implement High Availability (HA) Sybase CEP Server managers.

• Authentication-related plugins.

• Message-Driven Plugins
  A plugin is an event handler. When an event occurs, specific code within the handler is invoked.
• Non-Message-Driven Plugins
  The server may call a plugin's execute() function for reasons other than the arrival of a particular type of message in a status stream. In this section we describe plugins that are called without a status message being generated.