Correlation of methods involved in an HTTP request

[haithem]

Hi,

In the context of monitoring the performance of an enterprise Java application, would it be possible for Spring application managements tools (such as Hyperic HQ) to correlate the set of classes and methods involved in a specific user's web (HTTP) request?

For example, when a given HTTP request is sent from the browser to the server, a set of classes and methods are involved to process such a request. Would it be possible to track the performance of the whole classes and methods involved in processing such a request? In fact, when the request processing response time is high, it would be helpful to analyze how the response time was consumed among the involved methods. This would rapidly point to the suspect application component.

Thank you in advance

[jon_r]

The tc Server Developer Edition has something called Spring Insight which does this sort of thing, see this blog entry for a screencast of it in action. Hope that helps.