Chapter 5. The MBeanServer
This chapter describes the MBeanServer, the heart of the JMX agent layer. The MBeanServer's primary responsibility is to provide a registry, with a common naming model, for the MBeans that management applications used to monitor and control JMX manageable resources. It also provides a symmetric interface to management resources: Management applications interact with MBeans, and MBeans interact with other MBeans, getting and setting MBean attributes and invoking MBean operations via the MBeanServer.
Because MBean access is mediated by the MBeanServer, a resource's management lifecycle revolves around the MBeanServer; the resource becomes manageable when the MBean that represents it is registered with the MBeanServer, the ...
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