Revision as of 10:51, 15 February 2011

EclipseLink Application Management, Analytics, Diagnostics and Performance

• Enhancement Request 332312

Problem Statement

• This enhancement details work that will be done to enhance our basic JMX management API and add additional support for diagnostics and analytics reporting. We will also look at adding features that will enable developers to more accurately capture runtime performance and diagnostics information, as well as tools to interpret that data.

• There are two issues to this enhancement that separately deal with management and diagnostics reporting.

Management API

• Our existing runtime JMX management API that is exposed through the services MBean in any of the SUN JConsole, JRockit JRMC, Oracle JRF Enterprise Manager or JBoss web based console is sufficient but needs to be enhanced.

Diagnostics API

• Our existing runtime performance monitoring API could be enhanced with more JVM reporting - ideally that would not itself add overhead. This type of monitoring is currently done with JRockit - however it does not specifically target the JPA runtime API.

Scope

• The scope of this issue is limited to the primary EE application servers that we currently support via JMX. These are WebLogic, WebSphere, GlassFish and JBoss. We may also extend support to SE applications and EJB 3.1 Lite containers running exclusively in the web container.

Requirements

• Before we can decide on how and where we will enhance our management, analytics and diagnostics support we need to answer the following questions.
  • Q1) What do we currently provide
  • Q2) What are we going to with existing enhancment requests and how will we merge these with new requirements.

Existing Enhancment Requests

Requirements Details

• Official high level requirements
• R1: Address critical open issues general to all application servers
• R2: Expand platforms that we support JMX management on
  • R2.1: Expand support for JMX management of JPA based applications to SE clients
  • R2.2: Expand support for JMX management of JPA based applications to JEE6 EJB3.1 container managed deployments
  • R2.3: Verify security manager support for MBeans in WebSphere and JBoss

Manageability Requirements

• Make MBeans change session aware
• Introduce Admin Role MBeans
• Investigate Scripting support for configuration changes (WLS for WebLogic, Python for WebSphere, ? for JBoss, ? for GlassFish)

Constraints

Assumptions

Analysis

Design

Implementation

Testing

References

Competitive Intelligence

• SpringSource Hyperic
• Spring Insight
• WebLogic JRockit Mission Control
• JRockit Runtime Analyzer