SNMP & JAVA

Hi,

I have several java applivation working in the network and am now looking for a good maintenance method to it.
I thought of using SNMP to be independent. As i am new to SNMP i might have some conceptional erros, that' s why i am asking if my idea sounds good....

I decided on SNMP as all mangement tools i know support this (e.g. HP, MON,...)

As far as I know SNMP supports two kinds of logging.

SNMP Trap means sending unasked information in the network? Of course there should be a snmp service collecting it...
and

interaction with program to get status and logging information or recieve events.

As all my java apps use java.util.logging
I thought of implementing a new LogHandler who does nothing then piping the java.util.logger. messages to the SNMP Server via SNMP so a SNMPHandler for java.util.logging

Additional I wanted to add the functionality to this loghandler to filter all logmessages for predefined keywords. and upon occurence of one of those fire an event for the SNMP Management. As I have limited all Logmessages to special ErrorCodes this will mean no change to the code of any of my apps.

for this task i found two open source libs:
http://edge.mcs.drexel.edu/GICL/people/sevy/snmp
and
http://www.snmp4j.org

second seems to be the better.

Can anyone help me fullfilling my task (implementing a SnmpLogHandler) with the following fetaures:
1.) dump logmessages to snmp Management
2.) fire events to snmp Management

All hints and explanation and of course code snippets are welcome

thanks