Insight / News: Recent posts

No this project isn't dead!

This is a maintenance release with lots of code updates and cleanups, and a few minor front end improvements. The minimum JDK required is now 1.4.

Releases are now built for JDKs 1.3 and 1.4 only, a reasonable baseline since we're using Swing.
Improved generation of releases (.zip has all text files in DOS format, .tar.gz has all text files with Unix line endings).
Various internal code and ANT build clean ups.
Added matching of Mozilla browser user agent strings.
Updated to version 2.0.7 of the Jakarta ORO library.
Improved the format of the HTML report.... read more

All reports have been converted to use the Chart2D library (see http://chart2d.sourceforge.net\) - either Pie Charts or Line Graphs are produced. This helps the report look a bit more professional, but the appearance of the graphs cannot be configured yet.

Support has been added for the Sun JPEG encoder (available in JRE 1.2/1.3). This means any Sun JRE version 1.2 or newer can be used.

If you know of a Java JPEG encoder (ideally LGPL) please let me know and I will be able to remove the Sun JRE requirement.... read more

The Insight project needs some example Web Server log files to use as testing data! If you have any log files containing data you don't mind being published on the Web, please email them to chris@nappin.com stating the format (e.g. Apache, IIS etc.).
Nothing too large please - I only have a six-meg web mail account!

The very first release of the Insight project was made yesterday. Insight aims to be an easy to use, GUI-based Web Server log file analysis tool, providing professional-looking graphical reports that distinguishes "robot" traffic from real visitors.
This first release is pre-Alpha in terms of functionality; it can load Apache log files and produces HTML reports with JPEG graphs.
Insight is written in Java, and currently requires JRE 1.4.