Before You Read This Book

In order to build and run the sample programs in these tutorials, or use the tool commands, you must have a complete installation of the Java Dynamic Management Kit on your machine. Please refer to the Java Dynamic Management Kit 4.1 Installation Guide and Release Notes document for instructions on how to install the product components and configure your environment.

Before programming with the Java Dynamic Management Kit, you should be familiar with the concepts and tools used throughout these tutorials. The following books are part of the product documentation set:

• Getting Started with the Java Dynamic Management Kit 4.1

• Java Dynamic Management Kit 4.1 Tools Reference

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:

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