JMX: Managing J2EE with Java™ Management Extensions

Chapter 6. MBean Server

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Invocation Mechanism

• ObjectName

• MBeanServerFactory Class

• MBeanServer Interface

• MBeanServerDelegate

• Queries

In this chapter, you will look at the MBean server classes in detail and cover the relevant methods of the interfaces and classes required to interact with the MBean server. You will look at the invocations and how they are handled in the MBean server, go through the methods of the MBeanServer interface, and cover the MBeanServerFactory class, MBeanRegistration interface, ObjectName class, and the MBeanServerDelegateMBean. At the end of this chapter, you will also learn how to build queries for MBeans.

The MBean server is a core component of the JMX agent layer. As the examples in the previous chapters have ...