1st tier includes pluggable components meant to be embedded in the monitored application (as an ejb interceptor, web filter etc.), and generate access events and forward them to the 2nd tier synchronously (e.g. through a session bean invocation) or asynchronously (JMS message). 2nd tier is an ejb application that provides extensible access event handling logic, which typically leads to persisting the events. Multiple access log persistence methods will be supported: flat text files, xml files and xml event streams, javax.persistence entities, jdbc etc.
The framework will provide a convenient way for both coarse-grained (e.g. an entity bean or an xml document) and fine-grained (e.g. a bean's property or a specific xml document's node) access logging.
A configurable web application will be provided for selected persistence mechanisms.
