The Java Management Extensions (JMX) standard is gaining adoption within the J2EE community for the management of applications, as well as application servers and other infrastructure software. JMX ...

Since J2SE 5, Platform MBeans have been available that allow some key characteristics regarding the JVM to be monitored and (even managed in some cases) via JMX. In addition, many JVM-based ...

Controls and visibility are necessary for operations people to monitor and manage the application well. Monitoring and managing applications are best done today by instrumenting the application with ...

Let’s face it, configuration management of any application server can be a burden, and most projects don’t even have enough development cycles to include a configuration framework. Java Management ...

In the past few articles, we have seen how to use jconsole to monitor a running Java application. However, jconsole is not very customizable *. Sometimes, we would like a certain action to happen, ...