Chronicles of a Wandering Mind

Interesting links for December 14th through December 17th:

• The Enterprise Cloud – substantial analysis of clouds in the enterprise. Unlike most babbling about cloud computing these days, this is an in-depth analysis of the subject matter. Long and well worth it.
• Mastering Grails: Grails in the enterprise – In this article, you'll explore some enterprise-grade tools for monitoring and configuration. You'll learn how to instrument your Grails application with JMX. You'll get a brief introduction to Spring configuration in Grails. You'll also see how the log4j settings are initially specified in Config.groovy, and you'll learn how to adjust them dynamically with JMX.
  MBeans are like the various gauges, dials, and switches on the dashboard of your car. Sometimes the instruments are read-only, like your speedometer. Other times, like the accelerator, they are writable as well. But this dashboard metaphor breaks down a bit when you consider the fact that MBeans are meant to be managed remotely. Imagine flipping on the turn signal or changing the radio station in your car — remotely.
• organic thoughts: JmxBuilder (Groovy DSL for JMX) Released – JmxBuilder is a Groovy-based domain specific language for the Java Management Extension (JMX) API. It uses the builder pattern to create an internal DSL that facilitates the exposure of Java and Groovy beans for runtime control and management via the MBean server.The Groovy JMX Builder DSL hides the complexity of creating and exporting management beans via the JMX API and provides a set of natural constructs to interact with the JMX infrastructure.