J2EE Session Admin. & Message Sending / News: Recent posts

After a long wait (due to an intense year on both a personal and professional level), MessAdmin 4.1 is finally released!

This version brings full internationalization (English and French for now, translators welcomed!), support for JBoss Seam and Acegi Security, as well as the usual lot of enhancements and bug fixes. For full details, please see the release notes available in the download page.... read more

After a long wait, MessAdmin 4.0 has finally seen the light of the day.

This version builds on the strength of version 3, bringing among other goodies:
* Server monitoring! Why monitor a single webapp when you can watch the whole server?
* new plugins: ServletStatsGatherer (displays statistics on application servlets), ClickStream (which re-creates the ClickStream monitoring utility), ThreadsDumper, (displays active server threads)
* many other enhancements (SSL information, error count, etc.); please see the release notes available in the download page.... read more

We are proud to present you the final release of MessAdmin 3.0!

This version is a nearly complete rewrite from the previous 2.x series, and focuses on the following points:
* major code reorganization and refactoring
* brand new plug-in system (write your own!)
* simplified installation with a new ant-based tool
* more security thanks to an optional password-protection for the administration servlet
* flags non-serializable session attributes to ensure your application will behave well in a cluster
* brand new web site look
* the usual improvements and bug fixes... read more

Greetings all,

We are proud to present you the first public pre-release build of MessAdmin 3.0.

This version is a nearly complete rewrite, which focuses on the following points:
* major code reorganization and refactoring
* brand new plug-in system (write your own!)
* correctly handles serialized sessions at startup
* flags non-serializable session attributes
* even easier installation (not released yet)
* brand new web site look
For details, please see the release notes available on the download page.... read more

Welcome to the 2.1 release of MessAdmin!

This is an interim release, containing much of the under-the-hood changes needed for MessAdmin 3. Highlights of this release are:
* even more speed, thanks to the elimination of all reflexion calls.
* simplified installation (no more distinction between J2EE 1.3 and 1.4)
* the usual added goodies (new and more meaningful statistics; see release notes for details)... read more

At long last, the first pre-release version of MessAdmin 3 is now available.

While the main 3.0 feature (server-level monitoring) has not been activated yet, under-the-hood changes are there as long as minor enhancements over version 2.

We expect another full-featured beta release early next year before going GM. In the meantime, please report any bugs!

Happy X-mas to all of you!

As a teaser of whats to come next... Presenting MessAdmin for Tomcat Manager: Session Administration without the fuss (of installing, that is).

Download our modified (from Tomcat 5.5.12) manager.war file and place it in $CATALINA_HOME/server/webapps/. Restart Tomcat and enjoy your new and improved Manager! :-)

While you wont need to modify any of your web applications for this to work, this package can only give basic statistics, and does not allow to send messages to remote users. All of this will be part of MessAdmin 3, currently under development. Stay tuned!... read more

We are proud to introduce you MessAdmin 2.0.

MessAdmin 2.0 brings JMX management (you now have the choice between the built-in administration servlet and your favourite JMX console), along with numerous tweaks and fixes among which full compatibility with both Java 1.3 and J2EE 1.3. This is by far our best release ever!

All users are encouraged to upgrade to this newest and greatest version.

Thanks for using MessAdmin!

Greetings all,

We are happy to report that the last known bug has been eradicated from MessAdmin 2.0. Expect a final release in the coming days!

MessAdmin 2.0 brings JMX management along with numerous tweaks and fixes among which full compatibility with both Java 1.3 and J2EE 1.3.

Work is well under way for MessAdmin 2.0.
*The* new feature for this version is JMX administration. You will have the choice between the built-in administration servlet, and your favourite JMX console. Those of you still running Java 1.3 will be pleased to know we have restored compatibility with that version of Java.
We are also giving this version a lot a quality tests, which will result in the best release of MessAdmin ever.
Watch this space for the official announcement soon!

Who said we should slow down? MessAdmin 1.3 is released, which brings even more features such as session security information (look for yellow background for secure connections) and attributes Java class names as tool-tip.

As always, all users are encouraged to upgrade to this newest and greatest edition.

Thanks again for using MessAdmin!

Hot on the heels of version 1.1, here is MessAdmin version 1.2!

New in this release is a redesigned session detail screen, and WebApplication-related statistics. See HISTORY.txt for the full details.

Thanks for using MessAdmin, and enjoy!

We are proud to annouce the 1.1 release of MessAdmin.

This version brings some new features such as session attributes size, and a couple of bug fixes. See the release notes for the full gory details.

Note that we are now requiring Java 1.4+ as of this release. Please contact us should you require a Java 1.3-compatible version.

Enjoy!

We are putting for finishing touches for a 1.1 release. New exciting features such as Session attributes size and a hit counter, and two minor bug fixes, are all part of the package.

On a related note, we are now requiring Java 1.4+. Should you need to keep a 1.3-compatible version, please drop us an email (click the project admin link on the right of the summary page) and we will work out a solution.... read more

A small bug has been found in MessAdmin_JSTL10/sessionDetail.jsp, preventing display. While this will be corrected in the next release, you can work around by using the no-JSTL version, or changing the page as follows:

in MessAdmin_JSTL10/sessionDetail.jsp, go to line 118 and replace
var="name"
with
varName="name"

The JSTL 1.1 version works fine.

Credits to Ajay Chaudhary for reporting the issue.

Welcome to MessAdmin!

MessAdmin is a powerful Session administration utility, which can be plugged-in to any J2EE application, with zero-change in the application code needed!
The code, while still young (a few months old) is quite mature, and is already used in production.

Don't hesitate to download and give it a try!