Please review and improve JDK-8362173: Upgrade AOT Cache logging to support viewing and browsing contents and usage

[Andrew Dinn]

Hi Mat/Team,

Following discussion in last week's dev team meeting I have raised an 
umbrella JIRA https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8362173 to cover work 
that addresses the problem of making it AOT Cache content visible to 
users as well as providing some coherent account of how content is 
selected, generated and consumed.

There are several discussion points that I mentioned on the JIRA which 
everyone is invited to comment on -- tags to use, keywords to employ to 
label messages, object naming, data formats etc. We should try at least 
achieve some basic level of agreement on them in the next week or two.

Mat, the JIRA proposes initially pursuing the idea you suggested you of 
modifying the code that loads and validates AOT cache during a 
production run to also provide a comprehensive log message 'audit' of 
all cache content. If you are still able to pursue that task then please 
raise and assign to yourself a sub-task under the above JIRA to cover 
that work.

Mat, I'd also like to introduce you to Maria Arias de Reyna (in cc) who 
just returned from maternity leave and attended last week's meeting. 
Maria wrote most of the Quarkus blog post on Leyden we published last 
year and was, at that time, adapting the AOT log processing tool 
provided by te Spring boot team. She would be very interested in taking 
this further to cover analyzng and summarizing the 'audit' message 
content and enabling users to search and browse the set of cache 
elements it describes. So, please say hello to her and do keep her up to 
date with any progress you are able to make on the audit logging side.

Thanks!

regards,


Andrew Dinn
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