Announcement: Super 1.3 - an EJB/J2EE monitoring tool with SuperPeekPoke SuperLogging SuperStress It is free for open source J2ee/Ejb servers (JOnAS, J2EE-RI and jBoss). It is free for evaluation (no expiration date). You can anomyously down load a perpetual evaluation copy from: http://www.acelet.com. Super is a component based administration tool for EJB Servers. It provides built-in functionality as well as extensions, as SuperComponents. Users can install SuperComponents onto it, or uninstall them from it. Super has the following functions: * An EJB monitor. * A gateway to EJB servers from different vendors. * A framework holding user defined SuperComponents. * A PeekPoke tool to read/write attributes from EJBs. * A full-featured logging/tracing tool for centralized, chronological logging. * A Stress test tool. It is written in pure Java. The current version support: * Bluestone 7.2 * Borland AppServer 4.5 * JOnAS * J2EE RI from Sun. * Universal servers. * Weblogic 5.1 * Weblogic 6.0 * jBoss What is new: Version 1.30 May, 2001 Enhancement: 1. Add ConnectionPlugin support. 2. Add support for Borland AppServer. Version 1.20 April, 2001 Enhancement: 1. Redress with option to save a backup file 2. More data validation on Dump Panel. 3. Add uninstall for Super itself. 4. Add Log Database Panel for changing the log database parameters. 5. Register Class: you can type in name or browse on file system. 6. New tour with new examples. Bug fix: 1. Redress: save file may fail. 2. Install Bean: some may fail due to missing manifest file. Now, it is treated as foreign beans. 3. Installation: Both installServerSideLibrary and installLogDatabase can be worked on the original file, do not need copy to a temporary directory anymore. 4. PeekPoke: if there is no stub available, JNDI list would be empty for Weblogic5-6. Now it pick up all availble ones and give warning messages. 5. Stress: Launch>Save>Cancel generated a null pointer exception. Changes: 1. installLogDatabase has been changed from .zip file to .jar file. 2. SuperLogging: If the log database is broken, the log methods will not try to access the log database. It is consistent with the document now. 3. SuperLogging will not read system properties now. You can put log database parameters in SuperLoggingEJB's deployment descriptor. Version 1.10 Feb., 2001 Enhancement: 1. Re-written PeekPoke with Save/Restore functions. 2. New SuperComponent: SuperStress for stress test. 3. Set a mark at the highlighted line on<font size=+0> the Source Code Panel (as a work-a-round for JDK 1.3).</font> 4. Add support for WebLogic 6.0 Bug fix: 1. Uninstall bean does physically delete the jar file now. 2. WebLogic51 Envoy may not always list all JNDI names. This is fixed. Version 1.00 Oct., 2000 Enhancement: 1. Support Universal server (virtual all EJB servers). 2. Add Lost and Found for JNDI names, in case you need it. 3. JNDI ComboBox is editable now, so you can PeekPoke not listed JNDI name (mainly for Envoys which do not support JNDI list). Version 0.90: Sept, 2000 Enhancement: 1. PeekPoke supports arbitrary objects (except for Vector, Hashtable and alike) as input values. 2. Reworked help documents. Bug fix: 1. Clicking Cancel button on Pace Panel set 0 to pace. It causes further time-out. 2. MDI related bugs under JDK 1.3. Version 0.80: Aug, 2000 Enhancement: 1. With full-featured SuperLogging. Version 0.72: July, 2000 Bug fix: 1. Ignore unknown objects, so Weblogic5.1 can show JNDI list. Version 0.71: July, 2000 Enhancement: 1. Re-worked peek algorithm, doing better for concurent use. 2. Add cacellable Wait dialog, showing Super is busy. 3. Add Stop button on Peek Panel. 4. Add undeploy example button. Bug fix: 1. Deletion on Peek Panel may cause error under JDK 1.3. Now it works for both 1.2 and 1.3 Version 0.70: July, 2000 Enhancement: 1. PeekPoke EJBs without programming. Bug fix: 1. Did not show many windows under JDK 1.3. Now it works for both 1.2 and 1.3 Changes: 1. All changes are backward compatible, but you may need to recompile monitor windows defined by you. Version 0.61: June, 2000 Bug fix: 1. First time if you choose BUFFER as logging device, message will not show. 2. Fixed LoggingPanel related bugs. Version 0.60: May, 2000 Enhancement: 1. Add DATABASE as a logging device for persistent logging message. 2. Made alertInterval configurable. 3. Made pace for tracing configurable. Bug fix: 1. Fixed many bugs. Version 0.51, 0.52 and 0.53: April, 2000 Enhancement: 1. Add support to Weblogic 5.1 (support for Logging/Tracing and user defined GUI window, not support for regular monitoring). Bug fix: 1. Context sensitive help is available for most of windows: press F1. 2. Fix installation related problems. Version 0.50: April, 2000 Enhancement: 1. Use JavaHelp for help system. 2. Add shutdown functionality for J2EE. 3. Add support to Weblogic 4.5 (support for Logging/Tracing and user defined GUI window, not support for regular monitoring). Bug fix: 1. Better exception handling for null Application. Version 0.40: March, 2000 Enhancement: 1.New installation program, solves installation related problems. 2. Installation deploys AceletSuperApp application. 3. Add deploy/undeploy facilities. 4. Add EJB and application lists. Change: 1.SimpleMonitorInterface: now more simple. Version 0.30: January, 2000 Enhancement: 1. Add realm support to J2EE 2. Come with installation program: you just install what you want the first time you run Super. Version 0.20: January, 2000 Enhancement: Add support to J2EE Sun-RI. Change: 1. Replace logging device "file" with "buffer" to be compliant to EJB 1.1. Your code do not need to change. Version 0.10: December, 1999 Enhancement: 1. provide SimpleMonitorInterface, so GUI experience is not necessary for developing most monitoring applications. 2. Sortable table for table based windows by mouse click (left or right). Version 0.01 November., 1999: 1. Bug fix: An exception thrown when log file is large. 2. Enhancement: Add tour section in Help information. Version 0.00: October, 1999 Thanks. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user
