Hi, I am prepared to contribute as a developer in this effort. I was actually planning to start a project as an extension to Synapse to cover the management piece.
Please let me know how do I get involved and contribute. Regards Vaidya On 3/6/06, Mukund Balasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Guys: > > > > I know we have spoken about this before but I propose creating a native > management model for Axis (the underlying SOAP Stack) which can be extended > to satisfy the needs of Synapse as an intermediary built on Axis. > > > > There are, of course, varying definitions of "management" and a wide variety > of technologies to choose from (JMX, WSDM being prime candidates discussed > in the past). But here, I shall describe some "requirements" which I believe > are independent of the underlying implementation technology but are also > inline with the JMX/WSDM definition of best practices. > > > > The foundation of what I call "management" will be as follows: > > > > Discovery (ability to discover what's out there and what's going on) > Configuration (set, get, mod configuration) > State (start, stop, other states?) > Events (useful information about what's going on so you can subscribe to it) > Metrics (ditto but are aggregates) > > > > The Infravio team has extensive experience in creating these management > foundations in a variety of different contexts and would be glad to > contribute the seed codebase for this feature set. The above constitutes > what would be an "agent" which is one piece of a management architecture > constituting an agent, a console server and a console. > > > > One question which I had was that while this is essential for Synapse > participating in the "Web Services Management" space, there is a finite > amount of good that can come about if this was actually embedded in Axis as > well. > > > > Would this be of interest? We are going ahead with the development of the > same for our products and thought we could contribute it if there was > sufficient interest. > > > > Mukund Balasubramanian > > PS: Can somebody forward this to Axis-Dev? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
