[Springframework-developer] Spring JMX Plans

[Rob H. <ro...@ca...>]

All,

I am looking at ways to support lazy-init and prototype beans in Spring 
JMX. The biggest issue is that in order to register a ModelMBean you 
need to supply the managed resource instance, in this case the bean up 
front. An obvious solution to this is to provide an AOP interceptor for 
lazy-init beans that can be passed to the ModelMBean as the managed 
resources but which only inits the bean when the first method is invoked.

This leads me onto the main point which is: what is the best to go about 
applying this interceptor. I see three solutions:

1.  Have the user create the proxy manually.
2. Modify JmxMBeanAdapter to accept a Map of bean names instead of a Map 
of beans and use the BeanDefinition to determine if the bean is 
lazy-init or not, applying the AOP interceptor dynamically as required.
3. Modify JmxMBeanAdapter to accept a Map of beans OR bean names and 
then decide dynamically how to proceed.

What are our thoughts?

Rob