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1. Re: Common management annotations for JBoss projects?
dmlloyd Jul 17, 2013 11:27 AM (in response to pilhuhn)I've been working on annotations for WildFly. The set we have defines management resources and attributes, and also the infrastructure required to support them. The project is here: https://github.com/wildfly/core-management until or unless Jason kicks it out of there
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2. Re: Common management annotations for JBoss projects?
genman Jul 17, 2013 8:30 PM (in response to pilhuhn)I'd be awsome if:
- JBoss ('WildFly') did the right thing with javax.management annotations (http://www.javaworld.com/community/node/1164) via CDI...I wrote a CDI extension that works great, but I haven't released yet as open source since I'm not sure if people seem to care about CDI/JMX that much: https://community.jboss.org/thread/220963 - although maybe I haven't found the right audience? This seems like a no brainer.
- RHQ had a tool to generate a descriptor for rhq-agent.xml that used the JMX meta data. I wrote a JMX plugin generator that I use, although it's pretty crude. It works off of JMX metadata passed through the MBeanServer. It did a fine job of generating a plugin for standalone HornetQ.
For providing RHQ metadata it wants, JMX offers 'descriptors' (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/management/Descriptor.html), which should work for configuring units, trendsup, summary, etc.
You annotate an attribute using something like this:
@DescriptorFields({"units=bytes", "org.jboss.rhq.trending=up"})
Although this is not as great as custom annotations...For CDI support, you can maybe create a bunch of WildFly/RHQ custom annotations that are translated into standard JMX descriptors.
Maybe these annotations could offer suggestions in terms of alert configuration as well? For example, "maxValue" or "minValue" are defined already.
The workflow would be:
- App writer comes up with product, puts annotations in their code, which is exposed by JBoss/Tomcat/Java via JMX
- Operations/admin guy runs the plugin generator on a running system to capture the MBeans
- Newly created plugin is edited (hopefully minimally), and then deployed to RHQ