I started a new Java monitoring project at sourceforge. It is a Maven Plugin and has two important advantages. First AOP based monitoring/tracking of control flow respectively data flow and second the possibility of persistence of monitoring data in a local file or a central database. So you have a better transparence at runtime of your distributed system components.
The plugin configuration provides the following opportunities:
* definition of methods and classes, that should be tracked
* choose if monitoring data will be saved local or at a central monitoring database
* clear monitoring data
* additional meta information about developers and departments
The key aspect is to enable an easy way to implement monitoring in distributed software environments. This monitoring solution reduces the complexity of software monitoring to a minimum. Developers have only to configure the Simple Monitoring Plugin in their Maven project files (pom.xml).
Please have a look at http://java-monitor.sourceforge.net/
Regards
Rafael Sobek
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