Java News Brief (JNB): Monitoring and Management with J2SE 5.0
This month's Java News Brief (JNB) talks about Monitoring and Management with J2SE 5.0. It is written by yours truly, based on the OCI internal Java lunch I did 26 days ago.
The inspriation came a few days before J2SE 5.0 was released, when I was looking at the latest beta. What do I do when I inspect a JDK beta? Well, First of all, I did some thing like this:
[weiqi@gao] $ cd $JAVA_HOME/bin; ls appletviewer jarsigner javaws jstack native2ascii serialver apt java jconsole jstat orbd servertool ControlPanel javac jdb jstatd pack200 tnameserv extcheck javadoc jinfo keytool policytool unpack200 HtmlConverter javah jmap kinit rmic idlj javap jps klist rmid jar java-rmi.cgi jsadebugd ktab rmiregistry
I then did a ls in $JAVA_HOME/doc and saw a file named (something like, I don't recall exactly) blockdiagram.html. It contained an HTML table version of the Java Block Diagram. Somehow the word "Management" just jumped out of the HTML table at me. And I said, I have to learn what this is all about.
I can think of numerous situations in my past Java projects where something like this would be very useful, either in development or in production. I hope the article will be helpful for someone.
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Oh, one more thing, have you ever read the file $JAVA_HOME/THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.txt?