Software Diagnostics Library

The domain of some troubleshooting and debugging tools sometimes spans several computers, for example, a client, a server, and a middleware server (or a frontware server like a web server). Because such tools are small, there is no need to devise yet another distributed architecture but force the tool to differentiate its functionality based on a command line parameters. For example, the following tool implements Checklist pattern and chooses the right checklist from a checklist repository based on a command line option:

c:\> GreatTool  -client

c:\> GreatTool  -server

This nicely fits with a case when a server is also a client to another server and we need to troubleshoot its client and server functionality on the same physical computer. 

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

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