Alan West

This article introduces a new form of analysis for Java EE applications: a runtime abstract application model derived automatically from an application server using stored knowledge of Java EE construction. The model is used dynamically to do extensive automatic checks for a range of construction errors that could produce poor performance or unreliability. The model also lets server behavior be dynamically visualized in real-time or retrospectively. There has been a lot of attention given lately to the topic of of Model Driven Architecture (MDA), which aims to create working systems by generating source code from successively transformed high-level component models. While doubts have been cast on the real-world robustness of this idea - and previous code-generation sol... (more)