Develop plugin for indesign server

Hi,
i donno if this question is really trivial or if i'm just approaching this the wrong way. I need to develop a plugin that i'll have to run using indesign server. I have been reading the sdk documentations and trying to understand whatever i can. I've also developed the writefishprice plugin, however from what i understand that one won't run in the server. Is there any documentation that i can read that'll get me started on this, right now i feel like i'm between a rock and a hard place. any help will be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
Paul

Hello,
Even I have developed an Indesign server plugin, but I also face the problem in its invokation. I have read " indesign-server-plugin-techniques.pdf". It talks about how to make your plugin so as to make it compatible with indesign server, but doesn't talks about how does the server plugin gets invoked??
Kindly help.

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