Mlet

The management applet or Mlet service is a dynamic class loading service which enables an agent to obtain MBeans from an arbitrary network location. The Mlet service assists you in the development of dynamically extensible agents. The Mlet service enables MBeans to be downloaded dynamically from a remote URL as and when they are required. The agent does this by loading an Mlet text file, which specifies information on the MBeans to be obtained. The information on each MBean is specified in a single instance of a tag, called an MLET tag. The location of the Mlet text file is specified by the URL. When an Mlet text file is loaded, an instance of each MBean specified in the file is created and registered in the MBean server.

The Mlet service is implemented as an MBean and instantiated and registered in the MBean server. Thus, it can be used either by other MBeans or by management applications.