Re: [Proxool-developer] proxool integrating in tomcat & jmx

[Christian N. <chr...@em...>]

> Hi everybody,
> I just looked at proxool, an it seems very interesting 
> to me since you are able to monitor your connection pool 
> more detailed than you are e.g with the jakarta commons pool, 
> which you use by default in tomcat.
> But there is also my question: 
> Am I able to integrate proxool in my tomcat container by 
> inserting the neccessary configuration details in server.xml ?? 
> It would be good, not to use a application-dependent configuration. 
> And I also would prefer referencing the pool in my application 
> by using a JNDI lookup.

The next Proxool release (0.9 - out in a few weeks time) will add DataSource and ObjectFactory support. So if you have time to wait for that release the answer is yes.

> Next question is, why not building a MBean, 
> which has the same information as the AdminServlet. 
> Then you would be able to extract this data more easily to 
> external systems, like a management appilcation by using a 
> jmx-to-snmp adaptor for instance. As I can see so far you 
> only get information (from the MBean) about non-changing 
> values like the maximum-connection-count not the effectively used connections.

This is a very good suggestion. I'll try to make sure this is included in the Proxool 1.0 release (hopefully out before summer).

CHR

> 
> Thanks for any response,
> Philipp.


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