[OT] Self-describing JMX Beans

[Christopher Schultz]

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All,

I'm starting to wire some application-specific JMX Beans into my
application and I'm struggling to make them self-describing. Meaning,
I'd like for a JMX client such as jconsole to show my customized
descriptions for the bean, the attributes, etc.

At first, I had a simple interface like:

  public interface MyMBean {
    public int getSomeValue();
  }

And an implementation:

  public class MyMBeanImpl implements MyMbean {
    public int getSomeValue() {
      return ...;
    }
  }

Doing a bit of reading, it looked like I needed to implement
ModelMBeanInfo in order to be able to return the various Info objects
to describe the MBean.

So I did the simplest thing I could possibly do: I extended
ModelMBeanInfoSupport:

  public class MyMBeanImpl
    extends ModelMBeanInfoSupport
    implements MyMbean {
    public MeMBeanImpl() {
      super("name", "description", createMBeanAttributeInfos(), null,
null, null);
    }
    public int getSomeValue() {
      return ...;
    }

    static MBeanAttributeInfo[] createMBeanAttributeInfos() {
      return new MBeanAttributeInfo[] {
        new MBeanAttributeInfo("SomeValue", "description", "int",
true, false, false);
      };
    }
  }

When I do this, there does not seem to be any change in the display
from VisualVM for this bean. The "SomeValue" attribute is still
showing with a description of "SomeValue" and not my custom description.

When registering the MBean with the server, I just do this:

MBeanServerFactory.findMBeanServer(null)[0].registerMBean(new
MyBean(), new ObjectName("path-to-my-object"));

What am I missing, here?

Thanks,
- -chris
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