[seam-dev] Seam and monitoring / managing

[Heiko W.Rupp]

Hi,

as you know we now have shiny new RHQ / JBossON 2 as management  
solution of the next century (Ok, I'll stop :-)

Seriously: we can monitor the "bare metal" aspects of running  
applications. But I can imagine that it would be
very helpful to go even further and monitor the actual application.
Things like (examples)
- what is the average value of a shopping cart
- how many users are choosing which path in a navigation flow
- how long did a specific action take
- ...

In order to accomplish this, the writer of an application needs to  
determine what data he wants from which place. I can imagine  
additional annotations like e.g. @Timing on method level to initiate  
the data gathering. Seam could then
compute the timing for that method and provide it in some means to  
management applications (e.g. in a database table or
Mbean attribute or ...), from where a management application like RHQ  
could pick it up.

What do you think?

    Heiko


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