It looks like the new JDK has an easy way to add a connector (and even SNMP) to a VM, without the need for explicit support in the application, using system properties (on the command line) like:
- com.sun.management.config.file
- com.sun.management.snmp.port
- com.sun.management.jmxremote.port
I expect other vendors will provide a similar feature :)
As a result, there's no need to reinvent the wheel inside Tomcat, and I'm shelving my plans to add a listener to instantiate JMX remote (no need to add complexity), and will unbundle JMX remote (only the JMX RI core will be bundled); instead, I'll add a little chapter about JMX in the docs :)
With this JDK, JMX remote powered clients are going to become a standard almost instantly, since the only requirement is that the server is instrumented though JMX. So good job to the J2SE team, this doesn't seem beta (although they didn't test JBoss, it doesn't work right now, as a side effect of bundling JMX :-( ).
On the performance side, my (client) VM seems as fast as JDK 1.4.2, but does seem to use a little bit less memory. So unless it turns out to be really unstable (it does seem better than almost all the other Sun JDKs I've tried, so far), final 1.5.0 should be really successful when it's released.
Rémy
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