MinimWatch vs. Browser

[simoncn]

Ideally there would be a way to view the log in the MinimServer web UI but it is difficult to implement this with reasonable performance.

The Java APIs allow adding and deleting text in a text pane very efficiently, which enables new lines to be added at the end of the log window and old log lines to be removed from the start of the window in real time even when trace logging is enabled and the log window is being updated over the network by MinimWatch. Tuning this to achieve the required performance was a very large amount of work.

In contrast, HTML/Javascript doesn't have APIs that enable modifying the contents of a text pane efficiently, so the log window would contain a very large text string that needs to be replaced in its entirety every time there is an update (clearly not practical). I can think of ways to get around this but this would require a completely new log implementation (based on log pages rather than a single log string) and I suspect that after doing this work it might still not be possible to tune the implementation to achieve acceptable performance.