Hi Sandro, You might also check out MC4J, which is very similar to what you have described. It is Java-based Desktop JMX Console which can connect to not only Tomcat but also other popular servers. http://mc4j.org/confluence/display/MC4J/Home
apptaro On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd definitely be willing to help out if we can get some developers from the > Tomcat community excited about the idea. But otherwise it would probably be > too much of a stretch (for me, anyways). > G > > On Jul 1, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Sandro Martini wrote: > >> Hi to all, and thanks to Chris and Greg for comments ... >> >> For sure this feature is not my priority (in respect to my work on >> Pivot), I have small time to dedicate to Pivot, and this project could >> make me delay my other activities on Pivot. >> >> My/our idea was to make something really useful and not only a Demo >> (interesting but it's always a Demo), based on a real-life >> requirements, to use also as a test to see in Pivot need some >> improvements (following the "Eating your own dog food" rule, not for >> other Pivot developers, but surely for me). >> Other reasons were that Tomcat is one of most common and known Java >> Application Server so any Java Company could see our work, and also >> staying all under the Apache Home maybe we could get some other help >> in this project. >> I agree with Greg, the best here would be to have some Tomcat >> developer to help us, in direct way or maybe also on suggestion / >> enhancements if required and something has started in this direction. >> >> Then, the other, classic ideas on Pivot: the GUI Builder, etc ... >> I have another idea: a GUI Prototyping Utility (like many other >> products), but also this is not a strategical one I suppose. >> >> >> In any case, I/we haven't time limit on this (the subject could be >> Tomcat 7, because some features like persistence of JMX settings will >> be implemented in that release), so I could start to analyze the >> problem and start to write some document (and maybe some code >> skeleton), on out skunk (experimental) area under Subversion, and >> let's see what happens (or if someone join us in this effort), ok ? >> >> >> As always, comments and suggestions are welcome ... >> >> Bye, >> Sandro > >
