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Wednesday January 09, 2008

Building a Remotely Stoppable Connector Server

JMX is a wonderful tool to monitor and troubleshoot running applications. The new JDK 6 Attach API makes it very easy to attach to a running Java process, and start a JMX agent that will expose monitoring and configuration data to JMX consoles - like JConsole. However, there are some situations where you wish to start a JMX agent on demand, explore the monitoring data or diagnose the probable cause of an observed problem, and then close your JMX agent, leaving the application just how you found it.

In this post, I will discuss a means by which you can upload and start such a remotely stoppable JMX agent. Here is how.