Who Should Use This Book

This tutorial is for developers who would like to learn how to instrument new or existing resources for management, write dynamic agents, or write management applications. You should be familiar with Java programming. Some tutorials also rely on system and network management concepts: knowledge of these is helpful, though not required.

This book is not intended to be an exhaustive reference. Management concepts and product features are covered in Getting Started with the Java Dynamic Management Kit 5.0, and the complete Javadoc^TM API definitions are provided in the online documentation package.