The KoSSE-Symposium: Application Performance Management (Kieker Days 2012) will take place on November 29/30 in Kiel.

The program includes interesting talks, e.g., by:

• b+m Informatik AG, Melsdorf
• Consist Software Solutions GmbH, Kiel
• empuxa GmbH, Kiel
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• Kiel University
• QAware GmbH, Munich
• RWTH Aachen
• SAP Research, Karlsruhe
• XING AG, Hamburg

See the web site (in German) for details.

Registration is required (no fee!): mail@diwish.de

Today, we released version 1.6 of our Kieker framework for application performance monitoring and dynamic software analysis.

Major features

• Web-based UI for editing and running analysis projects (beta version)
• Adaptive monitoring: (De)activate monitoring on method signature level
  at runtime based on signature patterns
• Restructured and extended graph/visualization filters (trace coloring,
  tooltips etc.)
• Log rotation for file system writer
• Logging API: SLF4J support and logger selection via JVM argument
• Many new AspectJ-based probes for detailed event-based tracing
• Refactored realtime replayer based on new re-usable filters (realtime delay,
  record logger etc.)
• Java EE example: Now included in core binary release archive and based
  on MyBatis JPetStore deployed to Jetty server
• Definition of configuration properties and default values for analysis
  plugins and repositories now annotation-based
• Removed legacy control servlet (JMX interface should be used instead)

Quality

• Bug fixes
• Added a number of (JUnit) tests

See the release notes for details.