PanMX: Exposing MBeans the easy way

Peter Donald — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:15:00 +1100

PanMX removes the pain from developing MBeans. It was a toolkit I developed years ago to make things less painful. I have been cleaning up my subversion repositories and I figured it may be useful for others. So here it is released to the public at large.

The user can use Java 1.5 Annotations to define the MBean interface or allow the toolkit to derive the MBean interface using reflection.

The toolkit allows the user to define ModelMBeans via the ModelMBeanFactory or RMXBeans which are very similar MXBeans via the RMXBeanFactory .

Annotating a Class

An example of how to annotate a Java Class.

@MBean(description = "Component to measure and clean out toxins")
  public class Liver
{
  private float m_toxicity;

  @MxAttribute()
    public float getToxicity()
  {
    return m_toxicity;
  }

  @MxAttribute(description = "Level of toxicity")
    public void setToxicity(final float toxicity)
  {
    m_toxicity = toxicity;
  }

  @MxOperation(description = "Clean out the toxins")
    public void clean()
  {
    m_toxicity = 0;
  }
}

Exposing an MBean on the ‘Server’

To expose an instance of the Liver class as a ModelMBean the user could add the following code;

final Liver liver = new Liver();
final ObjectName liver = new ObjectName("body:part=Liver");
final ModelMBean mBean =
  ModelMBeanFactory.createAnnotatedModelMBean( liver );
final MBeanServer mBeanServer =
  ManagementFactory.getPlatformMBeanServer();
mBeanServer.registerMBean( mBean, objectName );

To expose the object as an RMXBean the user could use the following code;

final Liver liver = new Liver();
final ObjectName liver = new ObjectName("body:part=Liver");
final Object mBean =
  RMXBeanFactory.createAnnotatedRMXBean( liver );
final MBeanServer mBeanServer =
  ManagementFactory.getPlatformMBeanServer();
mBeanServer.registerMBean( mBean, objectName );

Accessing an MBean on the ‘Client’

The user can access the MBeans using the standard mechanisms. Additionally if the user decides to use RMXBeans and has defined the management interface using a java interface then the object can be dynamically proxied. This means that the user can interact with the object as if it was a local object.

The following code example demonstrates accessing a RMXBean as a dynamic proxy.

public interface LiverRMXBean
{
  @MxAttribute()
  float getToxicity();

  @MxAttribute(description = "Level of toxicity")
  void setToxicity(float toxicity);

  @MxOperation(description = "Clean out the toxins")
  void clean();
}

@MBean(description = "Component to measure and clean out toxins", 
       interfaces = {LiverMBean.class})
  public class Liver
  implements LiverMBean
{
  private float m_toxicity;

  public float getToxicity()
  {
    return m_toxicity;
  }

  public void setToxicity(final float toxicity)
  {
    m_toxicity = toxicity;
  }

  public void clean()
  {
    m_toxicity = 0;
  }
}

...
// Registering the Liver MBean
final Liver liver = new Liver();
final ObjectName liver = new ObjectName("body:part=Liver");
final Object mBean =
  RMXBeanFactory.createAnnotatedRMXBean( liver );
final MBeanServer mBeanServer =
  ManagementFactory.getPlatformMBeanServer();
mBeanServer.registerMBean( mBean, objectName );
...

...
// Accessing and using the Liver MBean
final MBeanServerConnection connection = ...;
final ObjectName liver = new ObjectName("body:part=Liver");
final LiverRMXBean liver = (LiverRMXBean)
  RMXBeanFactory.newProxyInstance( liver );

System.out.println( "Current Toxicity Level: " + liver.getToxicity() );
liver.clean();
System.out.println( "Toxicity Level after cleaning: " + liver.getToxicity() )
...

Files

To get your greasy mits on PanMX grab it from one of the following locations

Binary Jar: http://www.realityforge.org/static/PanMX/panmx-1.0.jar
Source Zip: http://www.realityforge.org/static/PanMX/panmx-1.0.zip
Subversion: svn co http://www.realityforge.org/svn/code/PanMX

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PanMX: Exposing MBeans the easy way

Annotating a Class

Exposing an MBean on the ‘Server’

Accessing an MBean on the ‘Client’

Files