On Jun 7, 2011, at 12:24 AM, Rob Cernich wrote: Hi Rob, it's not yet implemented but planned for the AS 7.1.CR1 release: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-963 I cannot provide any of the specifics yet, but it will be a build time solution that allows you to plugin tooling extensions that have been published to the maven repository. We used to have such a solution within Errai Workspaces and we will build on the ideas that proven to be successful already: http://download.jboss.org/errai/docs/1.2.2/userguide/index.html#workspaces It's a meta data driven approach (Annotations). If you take a look at the workspace-api section you get an idea how it looks like. Basically any extension will be packaged as a jar file and can be included in a custom switchyard build. It builds on a number of pre-requisites/constraints: - Tools need to be written GWT - There is no declarative approach like in RHQ. You need to write code. But we can help. - The framework will provide shared services: authentication, widgets, backend integration, etc Please let me know if you have any further questions. Regards, Ike