Okay, so summarizing here:
There's an existing product called BrowserHawk4J that does this. A quick
look suggests it's a JavaBean that could happily be used with the
JSPTL. It's payware though and more importantly, closed-source. I couldn't
see a free version, only a free-evaluation. Jason Hunter, famed author,
was involved in its coding and points to it from his servlets.com site.
BrowserHawk itself is at cyscape.com. It's relatively cheap from an
enterprise point of view, but not so from a personal point of view.
The Commons Sandbox has a very simple JavaBean named BrowserDetector which
could be used as a basis to creating a more improved bean with more
powerful features. A lot of these features could probably come from
BrowserHawk's list, but I'm sure there are others out there. One idea that
springs to mind is tight integration between logging and
BrowserDetector. Create a platform independent (as in servlet
container) url logging bit of code
Creating an actual tag for this is generally frowned upon as it can be
dealt with happily as a bean and using standard (or to be
standard) generic tags.
It does sound that future discussion should take place on/with the commons
maillist?
It also sounds like the beginning of something which should be a Jakarta
Apache project, namely a Java based web analyser solution. JSP's
generating out PNG's to do graphs of generic log formats. Lots of these
exist, are there many Java ones, all I know of is a Java port of Analog?
Bay
