Hi friends,
can anybody tell me if there's a standardized way to get access to container wide information inside a typical
Servlet container? That is I'd like to create a "manager" web application just like the
Tomcat manager application which could be used to gather information about all applications running inside a Servlet container.
I know that the Tomcat manager application runs as a privileged context inside Tomcat and therefore has privileged access to detailed global information. But to my knowledge this is a Tomcat specific facility to manage the whole Servlet container and I wonder if there is a container-independent way to create such a "super application"?!? Or maybe there is a much better way to create a centralized manager application without modifying other applications. Then please let me know, I appreciate any advices!
Marco