Before You Read This Book

In order to use the tool commands described in this book, you must have a complete installation of the Java Dynamic Management Kit on your machine. Refer to the Java Dynamic Management Kit 4.0 Installation Guide and Release Notes document for instructions on how to install the product components and configure your environment. Management concepts and product features are covered in Getting Started with the Java Dynamic Management Kit 4.0 and the Java Dynamic Management Kit 4.0 Tutorial. The complete Javadoc API definitions are provided in the product documentation package.

These books are available on-line after you have installed the documentation package of the Java Dynamic Management Kit. The on-line documentation also includes the Javadoc API for the Java packages and classes. Using any web browser, open the home-page corresponding to your platform:

installDir/SUNWjdmk/jdmk4.0/JDKversion/index.html

installDir\SUNWjdmk\jdmk4.0\JDKversion\index.html

In these file names, installDir refers to the base directory of your Java Dynamic Management Kit installation. The JDKversion is that of the Java Development Kit which you use and which you selected during installation; it can be either 1.1 or 1.2. This convention is used throughout this book whenever referring to files or directories which are part of the installation. In a default installation procedure, installDir is:

• /opt on the Solaris platform

• C:\Program Files on the Windows NT platform