I attended the LAJUG presentation of Kitty. Not sure who may have written in before, but I will do my best to summarize some of the thoughts that came out of the presentation.
* Several of us liked the idea of a command line JMX tool independent of the tool you are building to make administering tomcat prime time. * I suggested making Kitty into a pluggable architecture where the tomcat specific groovy scripts are just a plug in used by your command line JMX tool. This would require some pluming work to be done and forethought into how one would plug into the tool. This opens the door for a separate Tomcat 6 and Tomcat 7 plugs. JVM JMX general stuff could be another plug-in. This type of architecture would allow users of the tool to write their own plugs for their own specific needs depending on the Tomcat environment they are running. It also opens the door for people to build or contribute plug-ins not even related to Tomcat. * I would also suggest spending some time thinking about how users could override and extend some of the functionality that you have for administering Tomcat. These are my thoughts and seemed to be shared by others that where at the presentation. I hope you find some value in them. Cheers, - Ken Kennett Dempster Senior Software Engineer Sony Network Entertainment, Inc. Los Angeles 310-981-1827
