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.
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