Hacking MoSKito, fixing AspectJ
Back in the MoSKito 1.2.0 Vitaliy added AspectJ annotations to MoSKito which was a great thing and provides a very easy and convenient way to integrate MoSKito into an application. After I recently added Counters I thought it would be a good idea to add an Aspect for it too. (more…)
One to count them all
There were recently a lot of work invested in making MoSKito even better and publishing it to Maven Central, which, btw. is finished! However, it's time to tell you something about the new features in 2.0.x. Today we will be talking about Counters. Well having counters seems to be such a native idea for a monitoring application, that one could wonder, why didn't we had them earlier. And in fact we did. It just wasn't THAT easy to use them as now. Back in the not-so-old 1.x days (like 3 month ago), you had to build the counters yourself. It wasn't hard to do, but still had to be done. Usually this meant that you built your own custom producer, with a lot of code and a lot of ifs and thans in your code. That's over now! (more…)