Chapter 9. Managing JBoss AS

"Hic sunt leones" (Translation: Here live lions).

Formerly used in ancient Roman age maps to denote dangerous or unexplored territories, where wild beasts lived.

At the beginning of this book, we discussed the kernel structure of the application server that has been designed around the Microcontainer project. However, Java Management Extension (JMX) still plays a vital role in the application server infrastructure and as proof of it, some key services such as the naming service and Java Message Service(JMS) are still built on top of the Java Management Extension.

In this chapter, we will dive headlong into the vast and varied JMX ocean, highlighting the following topics:

  • An introduction to the JMX framework
  • Some detailed ...

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