Thursday, November 30, 2006

JMX: spoiling the application management party?: Guidelines for measuring your JMX instrumentation and its effects on application performance. - HP De

JMX: spoiling the application management party?: Guidelines for measuring your JMX instrumentation and its effects on application performance. - HP Dev Resource Central: "ools that monitor the state of an application or infrastructure by using data gathered from Java Management Extensions (JMX) MBeans (objects designed for application management) have entered the mainstream for Java™ developers. Enterprising developers now are building their own additions to management tools. These additions utilize existing data from the MBeans that the J2EE application servers supply or that Java itself supplies. Some developers also build custom MBeans to serve particular management purposes for their own applications. In some cases, developers have built hundreds of different types of MBeans into their application code.

This increased use of JMX to enable application management is relatively new. Software architects are now beginning to ask a new question: can JMX instrumentation affect an application's performance?"