Developers are capitalizing on Java's open and dynamic properties to use the
technology for seemingly limitless applications across the computing
spectrum. To ensure that developers and businesses optimize Java performance
in a variety of deployments, organizations must use an organized,
standardized approach to looking inside - and sometimes even modifying -
Java-based devices or processes.
Java Management Extensions (JMX) is a relatively new Java standard that
provides developers with a standard template and process for viewing the
performance of Java components.
Originally part of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 2.0
standards maintained by the Java Community Process (www.jcp.org), JMX grew
via the Java Service Request (JSR-3) standard into a separate s... (more)