Chapter 9. Designing with JMX

The authors of this book have approached JMX from different points of view, with different goals, with different skills. These differences have yielded many opportunities to be exposed to a wide variety of applications, problems, and solutions. This chapter looks at how and where to deploy MBeanServers, what options are available to you when you're designing MBeans for your Java resources, and who should create and register your MBeans and when. We also describe and illustrate some of the best practices we've picked up in the course of applying JMX to management problems, including MBean granularity, application managers, management models, and federation.