java desktop application - instrumenting interactions

[Tim Pigden]

Hi

My primary interest is on instrumentation of a swing-based desktop application. I'm interested in things like menu clicks, drag and drop events, running of macros and so on.

Is there any support for this?

Alternatively any suggestions for what else I might use?

Also, we're in the process migrating our application base to the web where we're interested in javascript in the client and server calls (http requests to an akka-http server written in Scala) Is inspectIt an appropriate technology there or would I be best off looking elsewhere?

thanks

Tim

[Patrice Bouillet]

Hi Tim,

inspectIT basically is capable of analyzing any kind of Java application, including swind based rich clients. What we do not have is an out of the box instrumentation for swing (which just means that you have to define these instrumentation points on your own, see https://inspectit-performance.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DOC16/Configuration+using+UI+configuration+interface for details about this).

The same stands true for web-based applications: we are also easily able of instrumenting these applications. And for these we do have out of the box instrumentations available so you would see requests+details immediately. JavaScript instrumentation and analysis on the other hand is something we are currently developing. I don't know when we will have this included, but hopefully very soon :-).

If you're looking for pure JavaScript analysis tools, I can recommend dynaTrace Ajax Edition (not in development anymore, but still available: https://community.dynatrace.com/community/display/AJAX/Dynatrace+AJAX+Edition+Community+Home) or pure Chrome Developer Tools.

Hope that helps,

Patrice