Component Tracing Service

[Damon E. Sorrentino]

One thing WebSphere 5.0 supports is a diagnostic tracing service that 
administrators and developers can enable or disable at the component 
level. For example, WebSphere has an HTTP_Transport component with 
several public classes:

com.ibm.ws.http.ChunkedInputStream
com.ibm.ws.http.ContentLengthInputStream
com.ibm.ws.http.HttpConnection
com.ibm.ws.http.HttpRequest
com.ibm.ws.http.HttpResponse
.
.
.
The administrator or developer can then enable certain types of tracing 
within each class, i.e. entry/exit, event, and debug traces, through 
their administration console web application. You can enable any 
combination of these trace types.

This type of functionality proves useful when trying to run different 
J2EE applications inside multiple application servers.

-damon