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A HelloWrold web app example is now available (WAR file and source) which shows how some of the key features of StarMX can be used. It has been designed and tested for JBoss 5.x.

The web app includes StarMX 1.3.1 and other required jar files. Just copy the war file to your JBoss deploy folder and start jboss. The output log of starmx can be found in the JBoss log folder under name starmx.log

To download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/starmx/files/starmx/1.3.1... read more

This new version of StarMX includes:
- Apache Imperius 1.0 policy engine jars
- A Log4j logger is made available to Java-based and policy-based processes
- Several bug fixes

This release of StarMX completely supports pattern-like ObjectNames in the definition of MBeans.

In the configuration file, if the object-name attribute of an MBean is defined as a pattern, the using process (or policy) will receive an instance of java.util.List containing the proxies of all available MBeans.

An observed object of a monintor can also be specified as a pattern. In this case, whenever an MBean which its ObjectName matches the pattern is registered or de-registered, it will be added or removed to/from the monitor's observed objects list.

The problem of using GaugeMonitor and CounterMonitor when the observed attribute's type is not Long was fixed.

First GA release of the StarMX framework is available now for download.

Change log:
- A few minor bugs have been fixed
- More documentation has been added

We are proud to announce that the first release candidtate of the StarMX framework is now available to download.
The StarMX framework is used to automate the application management tasks, reducing the manual administration effort needed to satisfy different runtime properties like availability and performance. In other words, it addresses the self-manageability characteristic in applications, helping them to be self-managed.... read more