Author Archives: Fabian Stäber

Dr. Fabian Stäber is software developer, research and development lead, consultant, architect, at ConSol Software GmbH in Munich, Germany. Fabian is excited about Java server development, distributed systems, operations, and monitoring. His academic research was on decentralized, peer-to-peer-based network architectures.

Instrumenting Java Web Applications without Modifying their Source Code

Fabian Stäber July 10th, 2017

Most Java Web applications use standard Java interfaces when interacting with other systems. HTTP-based services like Web-pages or REST servers are implemented using the interface javax.servlet.Servlet. Database interaction is implemented using the JDBC interfaces java.sql.Statement and java.sql.Connection. These standards are almost universally in use, independent of the underlying framework (Spring or Java EE) and the Servlet container (Tomcat, Wildfly, etc.). ...