polliwog - Java Web Log Analyzer / News: Recent posts

Version 0.7 is available with a number of new features and changes.

See: http://polliwog.sourceforge.net/manual/version-changes.html

for full details.

Lot's of new features and a number of bug fixes.

Can now collect hits and use them in pages based on a JoSQL WHERE clause. Browser/OS resolved and summary page generated. Locale can be specified for log file.

See: http://polliwog.sourceforge.net/release-notes.html for full details.

0.5 brings some major changes for polliwog.

The following major features have been added:

* Site Areas - polliwog now reports on logical groupings of pages within your site (site area).

* Visit Paths - polliwog reports on the path (via site areas) that a visitor took through your site.

* Pages - provides information about each page visited.

* User-defined collections - you can now define "collections" of visits that can then be processed.... read more

Finally got 0.4. done... ;)

Has got a ton of improvements in it, mainly:

* Performance, vastly reduced memory footprint and much improved hit processing speed.

* WIll now "remember" where it started processing a file via the use of a hit filter. On subsequent processing(s) of the file will start at line it "remembered".

* Now has a webapp to allow for easy configuration and management of polliwog execution, can have as many sites as desired and run polliwog as a separate process or in the container.... read more

Version 0.2 is done.

Major things of note in this version (from the user point of view):

* Daily summary pages are now generated.

* Should now work out of the box (after correct configuration, which is simple).

* Have ditched the Ant task classes since the "process-log" task can often require a LOT of memory (depending upon the size of your log file). It now reverts to using a "java" task and thus can set the max memory.... read more

I've got the polliwog home-page up and running now. This will act as the main place for finding out about polliwog stuff. Most of the pages thus far are just place-holders that will be filled in later.

The javadocs will also be done later, I need to finish putting the javadoc comments in the code (big job!), and of course the code is in a state-of-flux so it's tricky to do the doco just yet.

Some major re-shuffling done on the tool. Tidied up some of the outstanding issues with the tool and also introduced some new concepts including outputters and formatters for generating the pages.

Once I work out how to release files I'll create a build!

I've now got around to uploading the files for the first "public" version. I've actually been using the tool for about 4 months now and whilst I've no guarantee that it's stable it seems to "do the right thing".

It's still very rough and ready (the UI needs tidying up and the code needs restructuring) but it works!

No official release yet. Extract the module (polliwog) and then ready: "polliwoging.html" which should get you started.

Not that anyone will read this yet... but for those with an interest... the first release of "polliwog" will be available soon.

The parsing model is complete, the report generation is nearly complete and the page generation is just about done.

Once that is completed I will do a re-factoring of the code to make it based on plugins and do some tidy-up (hopefully making some optimizations on the way)...... read more