Pro JMX: Java Management Extensions (Expert's Voice)

By J. Jeffrey Hanson

* This book looks at JMX from the perspective of an applications developer, rather than a manager. * Cover the latest releases including JMX 1.1 and JMX 1.2 (when released). JMX 1.2 will also become a part of the full J2EE 1.4 release later in 2003. * It digs deep into the JMX 1.5/JMX Remoting 1.2 capabilities * It takes JMX out of the management domain and introduces it to the distributed applications domain and the service-oriented architecture domain. * Offers advanced content about Monitors, Notifications, Dynamic Class Loading and MLets, Using Dynamic Proxies with Dynamic MBeans, MBean Inheritance. * Addresses distributed service levels

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590591011
• ISBN13: 9781590591017
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Offers many new ideas

The author looks at JMX from the perspective of IT operations management as well as software developerment. The chapter covering the history of management specifications and technologies makes this book worth the price just on those merits alone.

competes with BPEL/WSDL

A few years ago, JMX emerged as a bright new idea in the Java world. It was crafted as a 3 level structure, as Hanson explains. The lowest being the instrumentation, populated with MBeans that map to resources of some kind, hardware or software. Above these is the agent level and then distributed services. The book goes into lots of detail about how to fill these levels. So that distributed systems might be made that control resources scattered across the Internet. All this has given rise to startups, often of a very specialised nature, like Intersperse, that make such applications. However, it's been over a year since this book came out. A countervailing trend seems to have emerged. As Web Services have been studied, the Web Services Description Language was made and its limitations discovered. So Business Process Execution Language has recently arisen to describe business logic, controlling loosely coupled distributed Web Services. So there is competition between JMX and BPEL/WSDL, with the latter nudging ahead. Yes, there are differences in scope. But they overlap enough in the crucial idea of distributed business logic. So consider whether you want to go ahead with this book or try BPEL/WSDL.