JMX - atomic access to multiple attributes on the same MBean

I was recently reading an excellent article by JMX Spec Lead Éamonn McManus called MXBeans in Java SE 6: Bundling Values Without Special JMX Client Configurations, which describes a great Java 6 platform feature related to management - that of supporting MXBeans - gone are your classpath issues with proprietory serialized Objects being sent over a JMX connection.

Although MXBeans are a very suitable general-purpose approach to this question, and MXBeans are what I'd recommend if you're able to use Java 6 and are able to choose your own data model, they're not the only way of getting access to MBean attributes in an atomic manner. This entry explains another approach to a slightly different problem-space - that of accessing different attributes in an atomic manner, rather than grouping the attributes together into a single, composite attribute.

( Sep 08 2006, 05:30:00 PM CEST ) Permalink

Introduction

Nick Stephen is a software architect with over 15 year's experience, and is responsible for several Java-based management technologies at Sun Microsystems, where he has been working for the past 8 years. Prior to that, he worked for the Open Software Foundation Research Institute where he developed MkLinux on PowerMacs, and worked on the Mach microkernel and on Java middleware amongst other things. Before even that he worked on Operating System internals for massively parallel systems at Inmos Ltd.

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