The Java ^TM Management extensions (JMX^TM) provide a standard for instrumenting manageable resources and developing dynamic agents. This release contains the JMX reference implementation (RI) for the instrumentation and agent levels of the specification. The Java classes which make up the RI are targeted at the Java 2 platform.

At the instrumentation level, the RI consists of MBean examples. At the agent level, the RI is the bundle of all agent classes described in the JMX specification document and defined by their Javadoc API. As a result of the Java Community Process, JMX is an extension to the Java programming language, and its packages use the javax prefix. The RI also includes some internal classes in the com.sun.management.jmx package.

In this software bundle, Sun also provides classes for an HTML adaptor: these are independent of the JMX specification and are provided only for demonstration purposes.

File List & Release Notes
Includes the list of all components in this bundle and how to use them. The release notes cover the features and known limitations of this release.

API Specification
Online documentation for all JMX packages, classes and members of the agent and instrumentation RI, as generated by Javadoc^TM.

JMX Grinder
The JMX Grinder is an easy-to-use graphical tool for viewing all types of MBeans. It relies on the design patterns of the JMX instrumentation level to determine the management interface exposed by an MBean. The Grinder can therefore warn you when an MBean doesn't follow the specification.

Examples
The JMX reference implementation contains code examples for different types of MBeans. It also contains code examples of JMX services and an example of a base agent.

Tutorial
This simple tutorial presents some of the features of the Java Management extensions. It relies on the MBeans and base agent presented in the examples. Your browser becomes the management interface to these objects using the provided HTML protocol adaptor.

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