There is a servlet that dumps all JMX objects - in a strange format ( like manifest or INI file - not hard to parse ). Would be great ( and quite easy ) to make it also output json.
All information you want should be there - and much more. Exposing new data is also easy. You can also use some of the JMX access methods - RMI, etc. Costin On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > On 02/03/2010 00:20, Sandro Martini wrote: > >> My post here is to see if someone of Tomcat developers is interested >> in supporting us making a Console for Tomcat, but instead of usual Web >> pages, making it as a RIA Applet or an Application (for example >> deployed via Web Start). Or at least if you think this could be an >> interesting application for Tomcat. >> > > I'm generally in favour of changes that make it easier for folks to > customize and extend Tomcat. That said, I'd want to look at each specific > change on its merits. > > As for an alternative manager implementation, I'm currently neutral. I'd be > a lot more interested if a maintained replacement for the admin console > (from Tomcat 5) was on the cards. > > > I haven't looked (yet) at Tomcat sources, but I think that probably >> the way Tomcat published data should be extended for our purposes, for >> example we are able to read natively xml and also (better choice for >> us) json formats. Maybe we could add a parameter in our queries asking >> Tomcat for data published in one of those formats. >> > > Tomcat's internals are mostly designed to be accessed via JMX. If you can > talk JMX then most of the work is done. There is a HTTP proxy to the JMX > interface in the manager app. Maybe a json-JMX proxy? > > > In detail, I'm thinking on the following features, to see how things >> looks: >> - Server Status (standard and also the Full version), a prototype >> could start to implement this >> - List Applications >> > > This should be trivial. If it isn't then, I'd have concerns about the > overall viability of the approach. > > > There could be also the Tomcat Deployer in RIA version. >> > > I'd view that feature as essential. > > > For a Full Administration Console (I don't see this since a long time) >> we have to see later, this is complex and requires many features ... >> > > This is the bit that, to me, offers an opportunity for real value. > > > Do you think the effort could be interesting also for the Tomcat community >> ? >> > > Potentially. Something else to think about is handling multiple Tomcat > instances. If you could manage tens of instances from a single client then > that would get a lot of interest from the user community. > > Mark > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
