Excellent point (Doug) on the simplicity of tcpmon. That is what made it so
easy to make these modifications in the first place. I would hesitate to
give anybody down the road a harder time working on tcpmon than I have had,
nor would I wish to slow it down or over-complicate it.
How familiar with TCPMon are you? You said "There are definitely
some key points in the processing that would lend itself nicely to
providing user-defined hooks/plug-ins." What do you have in mind?
So we have more examples to draw from in this, let me make public another
modification I've made (all locally) which is to add an "RPC Call" column to
the main window that does some pseudo-xml parsing to grab the call name.
This might be an example for the "plugin" approach, or it might just be a
good mainline mod. This was what actually prompted the audio feedback mod.
Meanwhile, I'm cleaning up the code a bit and talking offline with people
about testing it out. Again, if anybody is interested in trying this out,
let me know.
On a more general note, TCPMon is "org.apache.axis.utils.tcpmon" and an
associated properties file for i18n. This is an entirely standalone app all
contained in there with no external (non Java core) dependencies. Is this
agreed upon as a good structure? I didn't want to break this in adding my
functionality (hence my inclusion into tcpmon's core), but perhaps now might
be the time to open it up a bit, at least plugin-wise?
--
Dan Kamins
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From: Doug Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TCPMon Audio Feedback Mod ("RPC-Synth") RFC
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 07:09:22 -0400
One of the things I like about TCPMon is all of the things it doesn't
try to be. To me its just a simple tool for watching TCP/IP traffic.
It doesn't even know anything about SOAP.
I can't say whether the audio feedback would be a nice feature
or not - I'm sure it will vary depending on who you talk to, however,
have you consider taking a slightly different approach...what if
instead of adding this to the "core" of tcpmon we add hooks to
tcpmon that allowed for these types of plug-ins? There are definitely
some key points in the processing that would lend itself nicely to
providing user-defined hooks/plug-ins.
Just a thought...
-Dug
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