Re: [Springframework-developer] Spring & JMX

[Rob B. <rob...@ve...>]

Looks pretty good initially.  I'll take a better look at the links later and
have more feedback then.

Later
Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ivan Ristic" <iv...@we...>
To: <spr...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Springframework-developer] Spring & JMX


>
> >>2) Expose normal beans as JMX MBeans. This would allow any bean to
> >>    be manipulated through the JMX protocol. This is also easy to do
> >>    although there is more work involved.
> >
> > Actually, I think this can be a lot less work if done right
>
>    It is a lot easier than I thought:
>
>    There is an Jakarta Commons package called Modeler
>    (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/modeler.html) that uses an
>    XML definition file and exposes plain beans as managed beans. This
>    is how it looks like:
>
> -----------------
> <mbeans-descriptors>
>
> <mbean name="redBean" description="Red Bean" type="Bean">
>      <attribute name="color" description="The color of the bean"
>       type="java.lang.String" />
> </mbean>
>
> <!-- the same class but expose two attributes instead of one -->
> <mbean name="bean" description="Blue Bean" type="Bean">
>      <attribute name="color" description="The color of the bean"
>       type="java.lang.String" />
>
>      <attribute name="name" description="The name of the bean"
>       type="java.lang.String" />
> </mbean>
>
> </mbeans-descriptors>
> -----------------
>
>    Therefore all one needs to do is:
>
>    1) Prepare an XML definition file specifying for each bean which
>       attributes and methods to expose.
>
>    2) List the beans in an application context, and create
>       managed beans using the definition file.
>
>    Here's a link to the ONLamp article explaining how the
>    Modeler is used:
>
>    http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/07/09/commons.html
>
>    This Eclipse JMX plugin seems to work all right
>    http://www.xtremej.com/ and you can use it to remotely connect to
>    the exposed beans, get/set attributes and invoke methods.
>
>    Spring could supply an abstract helper class for JMX
>    integration (AbstractJMXBridge). The class would need to be subclassed
>    to provide a method to create the JMX-related stuff (create the
>    MBeanServer, and configure it).
>
>    Thoughts?
>
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