What You Will Learn from Reading This Book

This book will provide you with the necessary information, insight, and examples for using JMX to build manageable mission-critical applications or provide a standard management interface to homegrown and third-party management applications.

It is sometimes as important to understand the context of Java technologies as it is to understand the technology itself. This is the case with JMX. Therefore, this book gives you almost two chapters (1 and 2) detailing the history of management systems, management architectures, applications, and technologies. In these chapters we also explain the forces that combined to make JMX so important for the Java community. This book gives you the background you need to understand and enter into conversations in the management industry.

Specifically, you will learn to develop standard and dynamic MBeans to represent JMX manageable resources in their applications. You will understand how and when to use the model MBean to rapidly develop extensible instrumentation and how to represent interdependent management components using the JMX relation service. Because instrumentation inevitably requires monitoring, this book discusses the use of JMX's various monitors and its notification model in detail. In addition, this book provides working sample code to illustrate the application of JMX technology in various settings, including J2EE and Web services.