The Java Management Extensions (JMX) standard is gaining adoption within the J2EE community for the management of applications, as well as application servers and other infrastructure software. JMX ...

In the past few articles, we have seen how to use jconsole to monitor a running Java application. However, jconsole is not very customizable *. Sometimes, we would like a certain action to happen, ...

Since J2SE 5, Platform MBeans have been available that allow some key characteristics regarding the JVM to be monitored and (even managed in some cases) via JMX. In addition, many JVM-based ...