Finally Sun seems is learning something from MySQL, they are selling added-value tools for paying customers.
"GlassFish Enterprise Server subscribers are entitled to Enterprise Manager, which delivers improved management and performance monitoring features."
Before the Enterprise Manager was available only for Java CAPS. The new version seems to be a lot improved anyway:
- SNMP monitoring: Leverages existing SNMP infrastructure to monitor GlassFish
- Performance Advisor: Proactively monitors key performance indicators and automatically tunes JDBC connection pools.
- Performance Monitor: Diagnoses performance bottlenecks with visibility into key GlassFish performance metrics.
From my point of view Glassfish ESB is not an opensource product with optional commercial support, it is a commercial product with the additional benefit of being opensource. Putting words in the right order makes a lot of difference sometimes.
Ciao Maurizio,
ReplyDeleteI see however that Glassfish ESB Enterprise Manager is not an evolution of Java CAPS Enterprise Manager. Glassfish ESB Enterprise Manager does not cover the ESB part. Glassfish ESB Enterprise Manager covers the Java EE part. If you have a specific link demonstrating otherwise, it would be interesting.
Cheers
Eric
Hello Eric,
ReplyDeleteI think you are right, it does not cover the ESB yet and comparing to other products I had experiences with this is a major drawback (I don't mean lightweight ESBs, I mean the enterprise products Sun should compete with). As I wrote the ESB should be the central place where orthogonal aspects, monitoring and management are applied but Glassfish ESB still lacks exactly those very important features.
This seems however an interesting management tool with some advanced intelligent features, a good direction. But Open ESB is now a 3.5 years old project, time to eventually see more business aligned features...
Ciao