Notes

1. "Java Management Extensions (JMX) Specification," JSR 3, http://www.jcp.org/jsr/detail/3.jsp, which was led by Sun Microsystems to create a management API for Java resources.

2. XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. XML standards are developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF, at http://www.ietf.org) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C, at http://www.w3.org).

3. J2SE stands for Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, which is Sun Microsystems' Java platform. More information is available at http://java.sun.com/j2se. Java and all Java-based marks are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., in the United States and other countries .

4. J2EE stands for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, which is Sun Microsystems' Java platform. J2EE application servers are vendor products that support the J2EE specification. More information is available at http://java.sun.com/j2ee. Java and all Java-based marks are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., in the United States and other countries.

5. J2ME stands for Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, from Sun Microsystems. More information is available at http://java.sun.com/j2me. Java and all Java-based marks are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., in the United States and other countries.

6. JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) is an API that isolates database clients from database vendors . It is a Sun Microsystems technology.

7. EJB stands for Enterprise JavaBeans, which is a component model core to the J2EE specification. More information is available at http://java.sun.com/j2ee.

8. LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, a protocol designed to provide access to the X.500 directory while not incurring the resource requirements of the Directory Access Protocol (DAP). More information is available in RFC 1777 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1777.txt).

9. DB2 stands for Database 2, a relational database management system designed by IBM for large computers. More information is available http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/db2.

10. NFS stands for Network File System, which allows a remote user to read and update a computer file system (see http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid1_gci214121,00.html). NFS version 4 is currently under development by the IETF (see http://www.ietf.org/html. charters /nfsv4-charter.html).

11. IDL stands for Interface Definition Language, which defined a language agnostic mechanism to define the interface of a CORBA component. More information is available at http://www.omg.org.

12. MOF stands for Managed Object Format. This format is used to describe CIM information and is defined by the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) in the CIM specification. More information is available at http://www.dmtf.org/standards/cim_schema_v23.php.

13. JMX Instrumentation and Agent Specification 1.1, a maintenance release of the JMX specification, reference implementation, and TCK by Sun Microsystems. See note 1.

14. IETF stands for Internet Engineering Task Force (http://www.ietf.org).

15. IETF Web Server MIB, an SNMP MIB defined to help manage and represent Web servers (HTTP servers). More information is available in IETF RFC 2594 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2594.txt).

16. SNMP stands for Simple Network Management Protocol, which is an IETF standard. More information on SNMP is available at http://www.ietf.org.

17. HTTP MIB, an SNMP MIB defined to help manage and represent Web servers (HTTP servers). More information is available in IETF RFC 2594 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2594.txt).

18. CIM object property, a property or attribute of a CIM class or object, as defined by the DTMF CIM model specification (http://www.dmtf.org/standards/cim_schema_v23.php).

19. The CIM DTD is part of the CIM/WBEM standard (Common Information Model/Web-Based Enterprise Management). It is defined by the DMTF. More information is available at http://www.dmtf.org/download/spec/xmls/CIM_XML_Mapping20.php.

20. Common Information Model Schema version 2.6 available from http://www.dmtf.org.

21. Jakarta Commons Modeler is an open -source tool to instantiate JMX model MBeans from XML files. More information is available at http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/modeler.html.