On 12/9/10 12:56 AM, Dempster, Kennett wrote:
> 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.

Excellent, thanks!


p

Attachment: 0x62590808.asc
Description: application/pgp-keys

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Reply via email to