Service monitoring

["Shaw, Richard A" <ri...@atkinsglobal.com>]

I have a service which contains a quartz timer and and everytime it fires it requests data from another CXF service. Sometimes it starts reporting connection errors when talking to the service or simply stops alltogether. 

My question is - what is the best way to monitor that my service is still running ? 

Requesting the WSDL tells me something is still alive but not necessarily the complete service.  

I can trap the connection errors and send a message (or write to DB) when this occurs and monitor that. But I don't think this will get all my failures.

I could update a timestamp in a DB after every execution and monitor the DB for lack of update.

Any ideas ? Is there something else I could do ?

BTW my error is usually "sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor19 invoke
WARNING: dispatch failed!" And I haven't been able to discover what it means - I asked you guys before and nobody else knew either.



Richard Shaw

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