Monday March 28, 2005 Busy, busy, busy, busy...
The last few weeks have been quite busy as the project that I am working on is getting near to an Early Access release. A few customers will get the chance to peek behind the curtain and see what the project is all about.This project is getting a lot of attention from management, all the way up to The Ponytailed One himself.
Now, I really do wish that I could write more about it, but I'm guessing that even the little I'm writing here is getting Jay Littlepage and his Marketing team nervous. I hope that the curtain itself is going to go up soon and I'll be able to actually write about it.
Stay tuned...
-- Fred
( Mar 28 2005, 10:33:46 AM MST ) Permalink Comments [0]
Thursday March 03, 2005 Dabbling in JMX
I finally have the chance to do some actual work around the Java Management Extension. This is something that I wanted to do for a very long time but never got the chance to do due to project and timing constraints.I'm not doing anything complicated right now. Essentially, just defining a few of my classes as MBeans and using a HtmlAdaptor to be able to peek at what is happening within my application. The goal is to make it easier to see how the application is configured and hopefully make it possible to administer it.
I have found what appears to be a good resource on getting up to speed quickly with JMX. Blaine Simpson made available his JMX Accelerated Howto document online. I'm hoping that it's going to jumpstart my understanding of how to use it.
I'm hoping to be able to start blogging about the project that I'm working on as soon as the marketing people give the green light. It may not be quite as exciting as zones or dtrace, but it does have appeal for sysadmins.
-- Fred
( Mar 03 2005, 03:53:10 PM MST ) Permalink Comments [2]