Table of Contents

• Title and Copyright Information
• Preface
  • Documentation Accessibility
  • Conventions
• 1 Introduction and Roadmap
  • Document Scope and Audience
  • Guide to this Document
  • Related Documentation
  • New and Changed Features in This Release
• 2 Understanding JMX
  • What Management Services Can You Develop with JMX?
  • Creating Management-Aware Applications
  • When Is It Appropriate to Use JMX?
  • JMX Layers
  • Indirection and Introspection
  • Notifications and Monitor MBeans
    • How JMX Notifications Are Broadcast and Received
    • Active Polling with Monitor MBeans
• 3 Designing Manageable Applications
  • Benefits of Oracle Best Practices
  • Use Standard MBeans
  • Registering Custom MBeans in the WebLogic Server Runtime Bean Server
  • Registering Custom MBeans in the Domain Runtime MBean Server
  • Use ApplicationLifecycleListener to Register Application MBeans
  • Unregister Application MBeans When Applications Are Undeployed
  • Place Management Logic for EJBs and Servlets in a Delegate Class
  • Use Open MBean Data Types
  • Emit Notifications Only When Necessary
  • Additional Design Considerations
    • Registering MBeans in the JVM Platform MBean Server
    • Registering Application MBeans by Using Only JDK Classes
    • Organizing Managed Objects and Business Objects
    • Packaging and Accessing Management Classes
    • Securing Custom MBeans with Roles and Policies
• 4 Instrumenting and Registering Custom MBeans
  • Overview of the MBean Development Process
  • Create and Implement a Management Interface
  • Modify Business Methods to Push Data
  • Register the MBean
  • Package Application and MBean Classes
• 5 Using the WebLogic Server JMX Timer Service
  • Overview of the WebLogic Server JMX Timer Service
  • Creating the Timer Service: Main Steps
  • Configuring a Timer MBean to Emit Notifications
  • Creating Date Objects
  • Example: Generating a Notification Every Five Minutes After 9 AM
  • Removing Notifications
• 6 Accessing Custom MBeans
  • Accessing Custom MBeans from JConsole
  • Accessing Custom MBeans from WebLogic Scripting Tool
  • Accessing Custom MBeans from an Administration Console Extension