Does (how) the JBoss Admin/Monitor work?

[jardia]

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 Seems like it was just an experimental thing which is no longer maintained.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.

Can anyone help...juha.
cheers
oliver

Related links i know about:
http://main.jboss.org/thread.jsp?forum=61&thread=6768&message=379376&q=monitor#379376
http://main.jboss.org/thread.jsp?forum=67&thread=7323&message=377894&q=monitor#377894
http://main.jboss.org/thread.jsp?forum=61&thread=5343&message=361558&q=monitor#361558
http://main.jboss.org/thread.jsp?forum=47&thread=3484&message=225996&q=monitor#225996
http://main.jboss.org/thread.jsp?forum=61&thread=6617&message=373145&q=monitor#373145
http://main.jboss.org/thread.jsp?forum=66&thread=6582&message=373338&q=monitor#373338
http://main.jboss.org/thread.jsp?forum=47&thread=3479&message=225617&q=admin#225617

[jardia]

Oh and i'm refering to only 2.X versions of JBoss.
We've been live with 2.4.3 for a few weeks now. Things are looking good so far...few things are causing some concern (eg. BMP not always persisting maybe?). The admin guys really need some sort of view into JBoss, how many beans in pool etc etc

cheers
Oliver

BTW: Here are some links about what it is we've done. This is NOT intended to be a promotion/add etc...just wanna give an example of something that goes live for real with JBoss.

http://www.pogo-tech.com
http://www.pogouser.com/
http://www.pogouser.com/promo/ (flash movie)

[aschaenz]

I agree to Oliver!
I have the same problem to start the monitor.bat:


Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/jms/MessageList
ener
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.admin.monitor.MonitorFrame.setVisible(MonitorFrame.java:195
)
at org.jboss.admin.monitor.Main.main(Main.java:31)

I also took a look in the forum the get an answer if there is something wrong with my installation but it seems that I (or should I say WE!?) am not the only one who has got the same problem. But I can't find anywhere else a solution, a HowTO or something else. To me it seems that it's a untested, buggy tool. Either one of the developer should spend time to solve the problem or just throw it out. I'm just evaluating JBoss and to me this problem gives me a bad (first!) impression of the quality of the product. To get an installation running with basic tools (what I think the monitor is because it also contains the XML tool for deployment...) is a minimum what a user can expect! It's really a pity the evaluation will fail.

[blaine]

Not that this will give much satisfaction, but if you
want a Gui deployer, you can use the HTML adapter to
deploy. If running the default setup, go to
yourhost:8082, click on the only MBean in the J2EE domain.
Scroll down and enter a URL in the text field to the
right of the "deploy" button, like "file:/tmp/my.ear".
Hit the deploy button.

[juha]

no it doesnt work and I am not going to fix it

-- Juha

[saint1]

I think the jars, which are used by the Monitor are buggy.
Some classes are missing

Pierre