Web Services Connector for JMX Enters Public Review

The JSR 262 has has now entered the Public Review phase. New JMX types
supported for MBean operations: NotificationResult,
NotificationFilterSupport, AttributeChangeNotificationFilter,
MBeanServerNotificationFilter. This allows the JSR 262 connector to
support the new Event Service being defined by JSR 255, which has
MBean operations that use those types. JSR 262 defines a way to use
Web Services to access JMX instrumentation remotely. It provides a
way to use the server part of the JMX Remote API to create a Web Services
agent exposing JMX instrumentation, and a way to use the client part
of the API to access the instrumentation remotely from a Java
application. It also specifies the WSDL definitions used so that the
instrumentation will be available from clients that are not based on
the Java platform, or from Java platform clients accessing the
instrumentation directly using the JAX-RPC API. The Web Services
Connector for Java Management Extensions (JMX) Agents Reference
Implementation Project develops and evolves the reference
implementation of JSR 262 specification. The JSR 262 defines a
connector for JMX that uses Web Services to make JMX instrumentation
available remotely. JMX Connector semantics are preserved when
connecting from a JMX Client. WS-Management standard from the DMTF
is the protocol in use in the connector. This Connector allows WS-Man
native clients to interoperate with JMX Agent. Such clients can be
written in Java language or not (C, C#, JavaScript, Perl, ...). The
JMX technology was developed through the Java Community Process (JCP)
program, and was one of the earliest JSRs (JSR 3). It was subsequently
extended by the JMX Remote API (JSR 160). The future evolutions of
both JSRs have now been merged into a single JSR to define version
2.0 of the JMX specification (JSR 255). A management interface, as
defined by the JMX specification, is composed of named objects called
Management Beans, or MBeans. MBeans are registered with an ObjectName
in an MBean server. To manage a resource or resources in your
application, you create an MBean that defines its management
interface, and then register that MBean in your MBean server. The
content of the MBean server can then be exposed through various
protocols, implemented by protocol connectors, or by protocol adaptors.