I want to add functionality by installing a jar file.
What is the proper procedure?
I know I can copy the jar file to the local C:\Program Files\java\jre6\lib\ext folder but is their a way to install the jar file on the FPMI gateway so that is is available to any host running the FPMI application?
Sorry, such extensibility is currently not supported. The only way this would work would be to wrap it up as a FactoryPMI plugin, which doesn’t have a public API. We could wrap up a jar in an *.fplg for you if you’d like.
The good news is that extensibility support has been greatly improved in the next major version.