Dynamic extensible application server management

A computer program product, comprising:

• a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, where the computer readable program code when executed on a computer causes the computer to:
• provide a real-time plugin command-driven administrative control interface that implements direct real-time command-driven control of operational functionality of application server plugins deployed at a plurality of application servers;
• and
• change, by issuing a real-time application-server plugin command received via the real-time plugin command-driven administrative control interface to at least one of the deployed application server plugins, one of request-level application server operational functionality and server-level application server operational functionality of at least one of the plurality of application servers.