Dynamic Extensibility And Scalability

By definition, all agents and manager applications developed with the Java Dynamic Management Kit are extensible and scalable. The library of agent services is always available: managers may instantiate new services when they are needed and later remove them to minimize memory usage. This is especially useful for running agents on small footprint devices.

In the same way, MBeans may be registered and unregistered with the MBean server in an agent while it is running. This is useful to represent application resources which may come and go on a given host. The scalability allows an agent to adapt to the size and complexity of its managed resources, without having to be restarted or reinstalled.

The dynamic loading service can download and instantiate MBeans from an arbitrary location. Therefore, it is possible to extend the functionality of a running agent by making new classes available at an arbitrary location and requesting that the agent load and instantiate them. This is effectively a push mechanism that can be used to deploy services and applications to customers.

Finally, JMX conformance insures that all JMX-compatible components can be incorporated into Java Dynamic Management agents, whether they are manageable resources, new services, or new communication components.