On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Renato wrote:
> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 18:14:59
> From: Renato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Tomcat Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: MBeans dev
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've seen a lot of development regarding MBean lately and I'm a little lost
> about what are the new functionality that Catalina will have. Could
> somebody explain what MBean are ( and for what they are useful ) or give
> some directives, where I can read about ? ( I know there is plenty of
> material about Message Beans in J2EE but I imagine these MBeans for Tomcat
> are somehow different, aren't they ? )
>
The "MBean" that is referred to here is a "managed bean" from the Java
Management Extensions (JMX) APIs. You can read about it (and get the
spec) from <http://java.sun.com/products/JavaManagement>.
The basic idea is that each component object within Catalina (Engine,
Host, Context, Valve, Logger, Realm, and so on) has a corresponding MBean
through which it can be created, configured, and removed on-the-fly. In
addition, the JMX APIs have the notion of being able to save the
configuration state in such a way that it can be reused the next time you
start up the server.
For Tomcat, we're using the JMX APIs in the administration webapp that
will, when it's done, let you never have to touch the server.xml file
again -- all of the configuration can be done interactively through a
tool. The fact that we're doing it all through MBeans also means that
managing a Tomcat 4 instance can also be easily built in to any other
management tool that knows how to speak JMX.
> Thanks for the patience
> Renato.
>
Craig McClanahan
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
