Sun's Bloggers Get Bored of Blogging on JMX (And who can blame them)?

JMX is a monitoring technology. JMX is part of Java platform from J2SE 5.0. JMX can be used in conjunction with jconsole. Also check out Daniel Fuchs blog on JMX and SNMP (though lately - and to his credit! - he seems to have lost interest in it). A fundamental concept of the JMX API (which I think of as Java Narnia) is managed beans or "mbeans". Creating an mbean is as simple as creating an interface and an implementing class where each of the class methods represent an operation on the mbean - what could be simpler? The interface for the implementing class must be the name of the class with the suffix MBean added to it. It sounds very silly. That's because it is. Things become more interesting maybe when we start to talk about JMX agents.