Re: [Springframework-developer] Spring & JMX

[Colin S. <col...@ex...>]

I have some code (donated by a friend), which can automatically expose 
beans in a Spring context via BeanPostProcessor. It's pretty simplistic, 
but I can also post that here if anybody wants to look at it...


Rob Butler wrote:

>Looks pretty good initially.  I'll take a better look at the links later and
>have more feedback then.
>
>Later
>Rob
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>From: "Ivan Ristic" <iv...@we...>
>To: <spr...@li...>
>Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 12:10 PM
>Subject: Re: [Springframework-developer] Spring & JMX
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>>>>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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