Chapter 20. JMX with Spring

Java Management Extensions (JMX) is a technology that enables the instrumentation of Java applications for management, monitoring, and configuration; it's available at http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/core/mntr-mgmt/javamanagement/. Initially, JMX was available as a separate extension, but it has been a standard part of Java since the Java 5 distribution. If you want to learn more about the technology, the JMX documentation at http://java.sun.com/products/JavaManagement is the best initial resource. In this chapter, we will focus on explaining how JMX is supported in Spring.

The central value proposition in Spring's JMX integration is the ability to expose your Spring beans as JMX resources—MBeans—without having ...

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