How does the JBoss Admin/Monitor work?

[jardia]

"jardia" wrote:
Q: How does the JBoss Admin/Monitor work?

-This question has been asked so many times and there just does not seem to be a definitive answer anywhere.

-Does it actually work? Seems like it was just an experimental thing which is no longer maintained.
For example:
o the monitor.jar has had an incorrect manifest file for three versions+
o all help seems to stop after resolving a few ClassNotFound exceptions.

-Would it be possible to do a little how-to for it? I would be happy to do this...but every version of JBoss i have downloaded i have failed to get the admin/monitor to work.

I want to help JBoss and users.
Help me help.

[juha]

"juha" wrote:
It's no longer maintained.

[mredeker]

"mredeker" wrote:
Just because it is not maintained anymore should not mean that helpful people like jardia should not get anymore information about it.

I think an Admin/Monitor would be really helpful in convincing people on the manager or decider level to go with JBoss.

I myself am a developer having a hard time to convince managers because they say BEA or IBM has a nice looking monitoring.

Maybe the JBoss people should make a project out of that and I think there will be lot of helpful people willing to work on that.

Thanks,

Marcus

[juha]

"juha" wrote:
The source is in the CVS. You can use it to fix things or add features.

[mredeker]

"mredeker" wrote:
Juha,

do you know if the server side mbean for the monitoring interface is ok to use or is there some work on that side too. I would like to work on the client admin/monitoring tool as well as on the server monitoring mbean.

--Marcus

[mredeker]

"mredeker" wrote:
Juha,

if one would like to get involved in this, I presume that it would make more sense to work on the JBossMGT Server/Client project, right?

What is the procedure to help and write code for that?

Thanks,

--Marcus

[juha]

"juha" wrote:
> do you know if the server side mbean for the
> monitoring interface is ok to use or is there some
> work on that side too.

Not sure what inteface you mean..?


-- Juha

[juha]

"juha" wrote:
> if one would like to get involved in this, I presume
> that it would make more sense to work on the JBossMGT
> Server/Client project, right?

yes


> What is the procedure to help and write code for
> that?

Write some code. When you got a nice chunk of it that does something useful, ask for a CVS rw so you can commit it in the base. Talk to Andreas Schaefer to let him know what you want to do.

-- Juha