On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 14:19, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 14, 2010, at 2:06 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:59, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi devs, >>> >>> We need to introduce some ways to manage XE instances by exposing >>> management data and operations. For example exposing the content of the >>> xwiki caches, operation to flush them, etc. Even the ability to view/modify >>> XWiki's configuration data at runtime. >>> >>> I propose to use a standard to do this: JMX. >>> >>> The concept is easy: >>> - you write a MBean java bean >>> - you register it against an MBean server >>> >>> Note that all containers support JMX. I've tried it with Jetty and it's >>> enabled by default which means that you can try it by starting XWiki with >>> jetty then open another shell and type "jconsole" (it's part of the JDK >>> since 1.5). JConsole is a JMX console. Then go to the MBeans tab and you'll >>> Mbeans already registered. You'll see for example the JBoss caches since >>> JBoss Caches exposes some MBeans by default. >>> >>> I have written a POC already in the Velocity module to expose the velocity >>> engines, the template namespaces and the macros registered in each template. >>> >>> I'm ready to commit it as a first step in the direction of using JMX. >>> >>> I'd also like to introduce a xwiki-management module which will contain >>> some generic code related to JMX management. Right now I have a >>> JMXBeanRegistration component to perform registration of XWiki MBean. That >>> component will be used by any module wanting to register a MBean. >>> >>> WDYT? >> >> +1 for starting using JMX >> >> "xwiki-management" sounds a bit too generic if it's only about JMX > > The domain is management. It happens that the technology used is JMX for now > but this could change. I prefer a name by domain than by technology.
Ok > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
