[seam-dev] Seam and monitoring / managing

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 -- Reg. Adresse: Red Hat GmbH, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 20, 85609 Dornach bei Muenchen Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 153243 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Brendan Lane, Charlie Peters, Michael Cunningham, Werner Knoblich