Heiko Braun Software Engineer

JBoss AS7: Web Console 1.0.Final released

14 Feb 2012

After several month of work, we are very happy to announce the first final release of the JBoss AS 7 web management interface. It ships with [AS 7.1][1] and covers the following management use cases:

Subsystem Management

About 80% of the subsystems are currently manageable through the console:

  • configadmin
  • datasources
  • deployment-scanner
  • ee
  • ejb3
  • jacorb
  • jca
  • jmx
  • jpa
  • logging
  • messaging
  • naming
  • osgi
  • resource-adapters
  • sar
  • security
  • threads
  • transactions
  • web
  • webservices

In the next few weeks we are going to provide the remaining ones: infinispan, mail, groups and mod cluster.
General Use Cases

Besides the subsystem configuration, the current web management interfaces allow you to carry out the following operations:
- Full Domain Management (server groups, server configurations and hosts)
- Manage Deployments (both across domains and standalone servers)
- Configure socket bindings, network interfaces, JVM parameters and system properties
Runtime Status

Version 1.0 also provides you with the ability to quickly check the system health:
- JVM Status (heap, threads, etc)
- Transaction Manager (i.e. commit/rollback ratios)
- Datasource usage (pools sizes, etc)
- Web statistics (i.e. request/error count)
- JMS metrics (topic/queue sizes, etc)
- Persistence Units (cache usage, queries, etc)
Improved Look&Feel

We’ve put a lot of effort into the overall look&feel and tried to come up with a design that’s suitable for the job without getting in your way when you use it on day to day basis:

Contributors

Thanks to all the people that did help make it happen. Some people deserve special mentioning for their continuous support and contributions.
- Stan Silvert
- David Bosschaert
- Pavel Slegr
- Jan Martiska
- James Cobb

What’s coming next?


We’ll keep improving and extending the web management interface. There are plenty of goodies on the roadmap:
- Additional subsystems (infinispan, mail, jgroups, modcluster)
- Management operation plans (store, load & execute complex management tasks)
- Simplified clustering configuration
- Additional metrics and statistics
Tell us what you think

If things don’t work as expected or you think certain functionality is missing, please drop us a note. Your feedback is important to us. The AS7 mailing list would be a good starting point:
- https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev
Stay tuned, Heiko.
[1]: http://www.jboss.org/jbossas/downloads/

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