Kazimierz Balos

JMX (Java Management Extensions): Specification Overview,
Current State and Role in Distributed Environments


Abstract

Building distributed, Web-based, modular and dynamic solutions for
managing and monitoring devices, applications, and service-driven
networks in Java requires common framework which conforms to
standards and is supported by the most of JVMs and applications.
JMX,  the standard package in Java 5.0 platform, includes the
JMX-enabled JVM monitoring agent and becomes now a standard tool
for monitoring and management for many open source and commercial
platforms including J2EE application servers, persistence
frameworks (Hibernate).

The talk will cover three levels of JMX architecture:
instrumentation level, agent level, and distributed services
level. Different types of MBeans will be described as well as
management applications and JMX implementations on different
J2EE platforms.

Presentation will end up with live demo showing modern JMX
implementations in the new J2EE Application Servers (JBoss 4.0,
Sun AS 8.1) and accessing JMX interfaces using JMX Java 5.0
Console, MC4J 1.2 and  others.

1. Java Management Extensions (JMX):
   http://java.sun.com/products/JavaManagement/
2. JSR 003/160/255: JavaTM Management Extensions (JMX)
   http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=$JSR