# Server side plugin example
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/server-side-plugin-example/16549
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** python
**Created:** [April 29, 2025, 11:52am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/server-side-plugin-example/16549 "2025-04-29T11:52:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@florezg](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/florezg)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 11:52am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/server-side-plugin-example/16549/1 "2025-04-29T11:52:09Z")
Is there a server side plugin example in Python or C++? I wonder if there is a trivial example to understand the basics about developing a server (distributed) plugin version in Python. In particular, the usage of the executive object methods ‘GetUpdateGhostLevel’, ‘GetUpdateNumberOfPieces’, ‘GetUpdatePiece’ will help; and how to broadcast info among processors. Any hints? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/server-side-plugin-example/16549/2 "2025-04-29T12:48:44Z")
There are many server-side plugins example in [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/tree/master/Examples/Plugins?ref\_type=heads](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/tree/master/Examples/Plugins?ref_type=heads)
However there are no distributed computing examples there, using either ghost cells or multi process communication. You may want to look at actual filter code for that.
I strongly suggest to work in C++ to do that though.
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### Author:  [@florezg](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/florezg)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/server-side-plugin-example/16549/3 "2025-04-29T13:08:55Z")
Sure, I will take a look. Thanks for the quick reply.