I don't think this is a good idea.  I understand that it would satisfy
a lot of curiosity.  Not that it could phone home on the networks I
deal with.  There would have to be value-add for the end user, such as
checking for a newer version, etc.

Is there precedent for this in other Apache projects?


On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Howard Lewis Ship <hls...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This came up during my training class this week.
>
> What would be the repercussions if Tapestry included a start-up filter
> that "reported" the application startup back to some central location,
> so that we could get some idea of where and how Tapestry is being
> used?  Obviously, this would be documented, in such a way that it
> would be easy to turn off for the privacy-minded.
>
> It would be interesting to know how many apps are running in the wild,
>  and details about how many pages & components & services, JVM
> version, and OS and hardware configuration.
>
> Asking people to do this manually is a non-starter, I'm constantly
> surprised by people telling me they are using Tapestry in visible
> places.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Alessio Gambi <agamb...@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:18 AM
> Subject: Re: Monitoring/statistics
> To: Tapestry users <users@tapestry.apache.org>
>
>
> Hi,
> Please think also about some way to obtain (meta) statistics about
> Tapestry itself. Something that can be used to track how many people
> are actually using tapestry as platform for their applications.
>
> -- Alessio
>
> On 11-ott-2010, at 18:05, Howard Lewis Ship <hls...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been thinking about this kind of thing as well; having a JMX bean
>> for each Page instance and tracking number of render requests, number
>> of event requests, number of ajax even requests, and ellapsed
>> processing time for each.
>>
>> Obviously, it's a bit late for 5.2 ... it may be time to cut a 5.3 dev
>> branch off the current 5.2 code base.
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Josh Canfield <joshcanfi...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> I'm thinking about rolling my own generic monitoring/statistics solution for
>>> tapestry 5 and I figured I should see if something is out there already
>>> before I spent too much time on it.
>>>
>>> This is to be used in production and connected to an external monitoring
>>> system, probably via JMX, but we might be flexible.
>>>
>>> Anything come to mind?
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>>
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>>
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