Monday February 18, 2008
Web Services Connector for JMX enters Public Review
The JSR 262 has just entered the Public Review phase. The Early Access 3 of the Connector, that implements the Public Review, can be downloaded from http://ws-jmx-connector.dev.java.net.
Specification changes since Early Access 2:
PUSH mode supported for notifications. This is specified in the client by including JMXWSDefinitions.JMX_WS_NOTIFICATION_PUSH_MODE_URL in the Map given to JMXConnectorFactory.connect. Some related Map entries on the client and server configure security. A new interface JMXWSCredentialsProvider specifies how the connector server gets the credentials it needs to connect to any given client and push notifications.
New JMX types supported for MBean operations: NotificationResult, NotificationFilterSupport, AttributeChangeNotificationFilter, MBeanServerNotificationFilter. This allows the JSR 262 connector to support the new Event Service being defined by JSR 255, which has MBean operations that use those types. We also added support for java.lang.Enum and java.util.Set.
Connection identifiers supported consistently with the JMX Remote API (JSR 160) specification. This was already alluded to in the Early Draft 2 but is now formalized consistently.
Removed the interface JMXWSManResourceHandler. This was a halfway house between the Connector and Adaptor models. The model now is that for a Connector (client sees the JMX Remote API), the protocol is completely specified and invariable.
Some minor reshuffling of static final fields between JMXWSConnectorServer and JMXWSDefinitions.
The getMBeanInfo operation is now mapped as a Custom Action. Previously the MBeanInfo was a property of the MBean resource, alongside all the attributes of the MBean. This mix of data and metadata was strange.
JMXAuthenticator.authenticate method. The passed Object parameter used to be a String[2]. It is now a String[3]. The third element contains a client certificate in case HTTPS Mutual authentication is enabled (null otherwise).
XML Element NotificationLost has been removed from the schema. WS-Management already offers such definition by the mean of DroppedEvents XML element. NotificationLost was a redundant redefinition.
The schema has been updated, mostly to reflect the changes above, and some minor refactoring.
Implementation changes since Early Access 2:
Leverage of the Metro stack components (as detailed in my previous blog entry) in order to increase interoperability and efficiency of the Connector. We are currencly observing a *3 increase in performance.
Rely on the latest JAX-WS 2.1.3 release.
Introduction of an adaptor API that allows you to change the way MBeans are exposed in the WS-Management world (javadoc is bundled in the Early Access 3 auto extractible jar under docs directory).
The document that covers interoperability with Microsoft WinRM tooling (winrm command line, VBScript API and Event Viewer support for WS-Management events) has been updated in order to reflect the Public Review changes.
Feedbacks on the specification can be sent to jsr262-spec-comments@sun.com. Feedbacks on the connector implementation can be sent to users@ws-jmx-connector.dev.java.net.
Posted by jeanfrancoisdenise ( Feb 18 2008, 04:33:21 PM GMT+02:00 ) Permalink Comments [1]
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