Monitoring Blog

This is the blog section. It has two categories: News and Releases.

Files in these directories will be listed in reverse chronological order.

Posts in 2010
  • Citrus: More XPath validation power

    Friday, February 26, 2010 in Insights

    In my last post (citrus-xpath-validation-power) I solved a validation problem regarding generic XML data structures with some XPath expression power. Now in latest 1.1-SNAPSHOT version of Citrus things become even more straightforward. In the latest …

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  • Citrus: XPath validation power

    Thursday, February 18, 2010 in Insights

    I recently struggled with the validation of a very generic XML data structure in some message payload. It turned out to be a good example where XPath validation can overcome the normal XML tree comparison. I’d like to share my thoughts about …

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  • Citrus sources on GitHub

    Thursday, February 11, 2010 in Insights

    The Citrus project sources are now available on GitHub for public checkout. You can clone/fork the Citrus project via Git and build your own version on your local machine. Visit the Citrus project site on GitHub for more details. I also added a …

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  • Localized citrus.properties

    Wednesday, February 03, 2010 in Insights

    In larger projects usually a team of testers is working on Citrus integration tests. This means that we need to localize the citrus.properties for testing on different machines, as each tester executes test cases with individual environment settings. …

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  • Citrus: Latest 1.1-SNAPSHOT version available

    Tuesday, February 02, 2010 in Insights

    We put a further Citrtus 1.1-SNAPSHOT version online (see http://www.citrusframework.org). This snapshot release contains the following changes: Bugfixing: Fixed message encoding issue regarding automatic UTF-16 XML payload conversion. For detailed …

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  • Customizing meta information

    Monday, January 18, 2010 in Insights

    Test cases in Citrus are usually provided with some meta information like the author’s name or the date of creation. This post shows how to extend on this to include your very specific meta data on your own. Meta-data that comes shipped with …

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  • Jmx4Perl OSGi Bundle

    Sunday, January 10, 2010 in Insights

    The first developer version jmx4perl 0.55_1 with OSGi support has been pushed to CPAN. New year, new features: jmx4perl is going to provide support for OSGi. If you ask yourself what the heck is OSGi, in brief, OSGi is a Java platform for modules, so …

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Posts in 2009
  • jmx4perl 0.51 released

    Wednesday, December 23, 2009 in Insights

    Jmx4perl 0.51 has been released. Welcome to the next round in the jmx4perl journey. The new release 0.51 contains beside bug fixes the following changes: A new proxy mode allows for usage of jmx4perl without the need to deploy an agent servlet on the …

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  • Performance testing with Citrus

    Friday, December 18, 2009 in Insights

    Once you have written Citrus integration tests it would be nice to also use these test scenarios for performance testing. In a recent project we accomplished basic performance tests just using some out-of-the-box features in TestNG. In this post I …

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  • A very first look at monitoring in Glassfish v3

    Friday, December 11, 2009 in Insights

    Glassfish Enterprise Server v3 has been released yesterday and it brings some exciting news related to monitoring. Here are some links to the new monitoring features of v3. Glassfish v3 has quite a bunch of extensions related to JMX and monitoring. I …

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