JVM Usage Stats

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:14:53 GMT

Often when you open an XML config file in a DTD/Schema aware editor, and you're connected to the internet, the editor will reach out over the net to fetch the DTD/XSD, which gives webmasters some interesting usage stats.

I've commented before on how you can use this technique to look at the big growth in DWR usage, but I noticed that you could also use it to suss out some JVM usage stats because when Eclipse etc come read the DTD they use the Java version number as their User Agent.

Anyway, the numbers:

Caveat - there are about a million reasons why this is un-scientific. It may be interesting to some though.

Aside: I wonder if Java should adopt the 'standard' formatting for the User Agent string that is employed by all major browsers?

DWR usage is exploding

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:49:52 GMT

Hits have long been a meaningless measure of attention, and it's particularly irrelevant with a software project. But people (or should I say xml-editors) reading your DTD or XSD is a different matter because they only normally get read when people are actually using your software.

Joe Walker - dtd tag

JVM Usage Stats

DWR usage is exploding