Spring JMX Challenges

Yesterday I started to do some clean-up work around how we are using Spring and JMX in some of our webapps. We started off with a very basic configuration: ... ... ... By default, this exposes all public methods for management, which is overk

Extending Spring JMX support

JMX and Spring is Magic

Adding JMX to your spring project is a snap. If you need to ask what JMX is, basically think of the most awesome way to manage your Java beans and applications and multiply it by 50. Then divide by 25. But seriously, JMX provides you a way to execute methods from your Java beans by connecting to your running application via RMI. It’s a great way to check on the status of objects in your app while it is running. Best of all, you get it all for almost free. Just add this bean to your application

5 Minute Guide to Spring and JMX

I recently augmented a Spring-based project to expose some of the Spring-managed beans via JMX. Spring makes this very easy, and even if you’ve never used JMX before, this quick tutorial will let you set up your Spring beans to be viewed (and edited!) through a JMX console. (more…)