JMX Accelerated Howto

Blaine Simpson

<blaine dot simpson simpson at admc dot com>

$Revision: 2036 $

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Table of Contents

Introduction

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License
Purpose
Support

1. Required Software

2. JMX Architecture

Main Architectural Components
JMX Conformance Levels

3. JMX Features

4. JMX Resources

5. Introduction to MBeans

MBeans
MBean Types: Standard vs. Dynamic
Standard MBeans
Dynamic MBeans

6. Instrumentation

General MBean Coding Gotchas
Set up a JMX Dev Environment
Create a Standard MBean
Create a Dynamic MBean
Create a Model MBean
Create a Dynamic MBean by subclassing AbstractDynamicMBean
Wrappers for existing Java classes
Using AbstractDynamicMBean for MBeans that subclass something else

7. JMX Client Implementation

8. Distributed Services and Connectors

RMI Connector Details
JMXMP Connector Details
A Flexible JMXConnectorServer Agent

9. TLS

TLS Considerations

Encryption
Password Authentication
Certificates
Authenticating and Authorizing the Server to the Client
Authenticating and Authorizing the Client to the Server

TLS Examples

A few gotchas

10. Protocol Adaptors

11. Agent Implementation

A. Running MX4J's HttpAdaptor

List of Tables

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List of Examples

8.1. ConnectorClient.java
8.2. ConnectorServerAgent.java