JMX begins by presenting the JMX specification and its architecture. The book quickly moves through the specification, offering examples of JMX integration with J2EE applications. The final section of the book presents JMX management and administration practices for a variety of J2EE platforms and scenarios.
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Rating: - obsolete - avoid
While JBoss has been successful in various aspects of its operations, this book by them is now obsolete. The industry has largely moved away from JMX. The book was written at a time when JMX seemed like the Next Big Thing. Alas, the book does not indicate that in practice, JMX proved too intricate. Since then, Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture have become more popular choices, for building dispersed applications.
Rating: - Not bad but first look at the Sun tutorial.
First reading this book and then the JDMK 5.0 Tutorial from Sun I was struck by how much of it is copied from the tutorial. The tutorial seems very well written and complete, and I would recomend it before this book.
Rating: - Excellent Book, but not for beginners
Although the contents in the books are a little haphazard and the samples don't run out of the box, its has excellent content. This is definately not an intro to JMX if you're not ready to poke around. Interestingly the difficulty in running the samples and the poking around ultimately led me to get a much deeper understanding of the JMX concept. Its sort of like how you remember the directions well after you've been lost a few times and havinng to figure your way out of it. If ... Read More
Rating: - JMX Managing J2EE with Java Management Extensions
The example code, ...doesn't match the examples in the book. The files are all in a single directory instead of being seperated by chapter. This makes it more difficult to work with.
Some of the examples will no longer compile due to changes in the JMX spec. There's no errata files.
Other than the difficulty of the examples, the book provides a good introduction to JMX.
Rating: - OK Coverage for an Emerging Standard
This book will be of particular interest to you if you're using JBoss as your app server, as JMX forms the fundamental glue used to implement the JBoss server.
The book starts out with some nice introductory coverage for Standard MBeans, which are about the most dirt simple classes to code so I expected some good writing here. From there we start getting into Dynamic MBeans where the fun really begins. I was particularly interested in the implementation of ModelMBeans, which are dynamic ... Read More
- obsolete - avoid
- Not bad but first look at the Sun tutorial.
