Success stories gaining ground with Diagnostic Framework (DFW) tools
There is one diagnostic tool that's gaining ground with customers and
engineers these days and this is the Diagnostic Framework, also known as
DFW Plug-ins.
In case you didn't know, this DFW framework has been around for a while
and while the number of plug-ins have been few and far between, that
situation is changing rapidly with more and more plug-ins being
developed.
PeopleTools delivers Diagnostics Framework base classes in an
application package called PT_DIAGNOSTICS, which consists of a
collection of application classes as well methods which can be used to
develop application packages for the Diagnostics Framework. After
implementing and registering the application package within the
Diagnostics Framework, the application package becomes a diagnostic
plug-in. Today, GSC has released a good number of plug-ins, and now
maintains a central catalog which you can download from My Oracle
Support. Look for KM document: