Merge Whack and Messenger?

Openfire Openfire Dev
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I’'m currently working on intrumenting messenger with JMX and would like to intrument classes in org.dom4j.io and org.xmpp.* I have a utility class that makes this dead simple…

Meter m = Meter.getMeter("…");

m.start();

// do something complex and time consuming.

m.stop();

/code

There’'s another pice to this called a MeterObserver which takes the results from a Meter and pipes it out JMX land.

So the problem is, the Meter class lives in the Messenger project and I want to add it to the Whack project, but this adds a cycle between Whack and Messenger. There are two solutions, and possibly more, that I see.

  • Place the org.xmpp.* and org.dom4j.io.* classes in messenger making whack dependant on Messenger.

  • Create another project (I’'d like org.jivesoftware.management) and put all common files in there.

Please let me know what you think.

Noah

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I’‘ve never worked with Whack, but isn’'t the idea of whack to provide a library with which generic Jabber/XMPP server components can be build? From that point of view, makeing it dependant on JiveMessenger seems odd to me.

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i’'d go for the second one,

cause you can see it comming that smack is going to use org.xmpp.* also and maybe even the org.dom4j suff to (or following the discussion a repacement for it).

I’'d think it makes things easyer maintainable to

anyways, i notice that you don’'t use the jamon (http://www.jamonapi.com/) monitoring tool, maybe a nice addon for JM, got a stats page that you can plug into the admin(one jsp for the report and turning on/off the monitoring).

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JAMon is close but not close enough. Three features that I was looking for are:

  • JMX is the transport for representing results

  • All stats processing happens asynchronously

  • Counter for gathering arbitrary values (and storing their distribution)

JAMon does have a cool jsp for rendering results…that could surely be used as a reference.

Noah