<Elevator pitch> Myself and Peary Chiu have created a lightweight utility for administering Tomcat from the command line in our copious amounts of free time on the weekends. This is a very rough utility, but we wanted a command line administration utility that made it very easy and quick to debug a Tomcat server via JMX.
We are looking to solicit feedback from the community on this utility. Really it could be used for any application server, but because of Tomcat's relevance and our familiarity with it, we prefer to offer to this audience. The reason we are creating this utility is because we didn't feel that jconsole or other utilities such as jmxsh were not swift enough or user friendly enough for troubleshooting Tomcat in a production environment. We have nothing against these projects, we just had a different preference for this tool. <Needs to be improved> We are aware that it needs some features, such as: - #1 Documentation - Easier navigation - Bash-style auto completion (if accomplished, could also benefit the Jython project) - Compile Jython code to Java classes We are working on getting these problems addressed. To our knowledge it works without issue with Jython 2.5.1+. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jython/files/) <What we'd appreciate> Feel free to reply back with bugs and enhancement requests. We believe this will eventually be a useful, lightweight administration utility for Tomcat. We believe that by putting this out to the community early, we can address the needs of the community for such a utility, if at all, and have the community give some feedback on their general thoughts on the project. <Fin> Code is available at: http://github.com/msacks/kitty Thanks for your friendly replies, Matthew Sacks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
