[infinispan-dev] a nice HTML5 console for Infinispan & a question on MBean names...

[James Strachan]

On 20 March 2013 09:44, Tristan Tarrant <ttarrant at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 03/19/2013 06:55 PM, Dennis Reed wrote:
>> This is an invalid use of the MBean names.
>>
>> The keys in an ObjectName are unordered.  It is a bug to depend on a
>> specific ordering of the keys.
> Thanks Dennis, I was about to write that.
>> On 03/19/2013 10:07 AM, Manik Surtani wrote:
>>>
>>> On 27 Feb 2013, at 15:54, James Strachan <james.strachan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I also wondered if folks fancied adding a few more operations to the
>>> Cache mbean so that we could build a little console in hawtio for
>>> Infinispan; to view/update contents of the caches or flush them etc?
> This is actually trickier than you think: Infinispan can theoretically
> use any kind of data for keys/values (including custom Java classes).
> Furthermore these keys/values may be wrapped by service-specific
> containers making it very difficult to implement some kind of CRUD
> interface.
> You could probably latch on to the Infinispan CLI server component
> (which incidentally is also exposed as an MBean) and provides solutions
> for most of the above problems.

Ah cool, I'd not seen that, I'll take a look. Being able to marshal
things to blobs of JSON would be handy (e.g. using Jackson or using
Jolokia). I'll try out the CLI MBean though.

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