Running the M-Let Manager Example

The MBeans in the agent and manager (client) examples are identical, and we will set up the example in exactly the same manner.

$ cd examplesDir/MLetClient/
$ javac -classpath classpath *.java

$ jar cf Square.jar Square.class SquareMBean.class
$ rm Square.class SquareMBean.class

$ jar cf EquilateralTriangle.jar EquilateralTriangle.class \
EquilateralTriangleMBean.class
$ rm EquilateralTriangle.class EquilateralTriangleMBean.class

The manager is written to be run on the same host as the agent application. To run it on a different host, modify the code for the Client class constructor where the agent address is specified (see Example 14–6). You can place the JAR files and the m-let file on a remote host and specify its new URL as the parameter to the manager application. We run the example with this file in the current directory.

Before starting the manager, you must start the agent. Here we give commands for starting the applications from the same terminal window running the Korn shell. On the Windows 2000 platform, you will have to start each application in a separate window.

$ java -classpath classpath Agent &
$ java -classpath classpath Client \ 
file:${PWD}/Square.jar file:${PWD}/GeometricShapes.html

In the output of the manager, you can see it create the m-let service MBean, and then load all of the MBeans from different sources. Connect to the agent in a web browser at the following URL:

http://localhost:8082/

Reload its agent view every time the manager pauses, to see the MBeans as they are created.

The agent terminates after it disconnects its connector client. When you have finished viewing the agent, type the following commands to stop the agent application:

$ fg
java [...] Agent <Control-C>
^C$