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Pez Cuckow
Pez Cuckow

Reputation: 14412

Java: HTTP asynchronous non-blocking remote logging server?

I'm looking for a way of implementing a simple API to receive log messages (for various events across various systems).

We've concluded an HTTP get request is the most open (lowest barrier to entry) for the different code bases and systems that would need to post to this server.

The server itself needs to provide an HTTP GET api where I would send a message e.g. logging.internal/?system=email&message=An email failed

However we'd like this to be non blocking so any application can throw information to this server and never have to wait (not slowing any production systems).

Does anyone know of any framework to implement this in Java, or an appropriate approach?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 393

Answers (1)

Rafael Sisto
Rafael Sisto

Reputation: 414

In java, for the server, you can use any implementation of JAX-RS for the Restful part, and when processing the message, just call an asynchronous EJB method ( http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/tutorial/doc/gkkqg.html ), which will do the longer processing. This will allow the RESTful request to return as fast as possible.

In this case, the only blocking part will be the http request/response.

If you want to make it less blocking, issue the RESTful request from the client in an Async method as well (or a Message Driven Bean if using Java EE 5).

Upvotes: 1

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