Mark Thomas wrote: > Мартин Бенков wrote: >> Hello, > > Martin, > > Welcome to the Tomcat community. > >> I'm a student in the university of Sofia and I'm willing to attend Google's >> summer of code this year. The project I'm interested in is - *Improve the >> JMX support within Apache Tomcat*. Is this project with high priority or >> should I choose a more important one. > > The JMX project stands as much chance as any other. If we do need to apply > limits then it will be on the basis of the quality of the applications. > >> Now I have about 3 years experience with Java and year and a half >> professional experience with J2EE(I've worked in Sap Labs Bulgaria in the >> team responsible for the JMS implementation). During this time I've looked >> at several mbeans and I'm familiar with the main idea of the JMX. >> >> Currently I don't know what the state of the project is but as far as the >> description of the task informs me the main goal is to enlist all attributes >> in the JMX infrastructure document them and choose which of them should be >> read only. >> >> My proposal is something like - first get on board with the community, then >> explore the current state of the JMX integration in the Tomcat(see best >> practices to add attributes in the JMX), discuss which are the read only >> properties and imlement them. > > Great. Building Tomcat locally is probably a good place to start. You should > be > using the one in http://svn.eu.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/trunk > > Once you have Tomcat building, I suggest you pick a current bug and try and > fix > it. This will help you to get familiar with the code base. The effort won't be > wasted. The JMX project will require changes all over the codebase so the more > familiar you are the better. And you will have fixed a Tomcat bug which is > always a good thing :) > > If you need help with any of this or a suggestion as to which bug might be a > good one to start with, just e-mail the dev list.
One more thing: Make sure you get your application in to GSOC as soon as possible - even if it is just a draft - as Google are trying to judge numbers. Mark > >> I'm looking forward to hearing from you. >> >> Regards, >> Martin Benkov >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
