Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-tomcat-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 48473 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2002 21:45:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 7 Feb 2002 21:45:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 6528 invoked by uid 97); 7 Feb 2002 21:45:02 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 6499 invoked by uid 97); 7 Feb 2002 21:45:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact tomcat-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Tomcat Developers List" Reply-To: "Tomcat Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 6485 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2002 21:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <003301c1b020$ab320a70$6401a8c0@xphile> From: "David Graff" To: "Tomcat Developers List" References: <20020207130444.V68704-100000@icarus.apache.org> Subject: Re: MBeans dev Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 16:44:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Craig, Thank you for the explanation of that. Very cool deal. The server.xml is pretty ugly to edit manually. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig R. McClanahan" To: "Tomcat Developers List" Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 16:18 Subject: Re: MBeans dev > > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Renato wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 18:14:59 > > From: Renato > > Reply-To: Tomcat Developers List > > To: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org > > Subject: MBeans dev > > > > Hi all, > > > > I've seen a lot of development regarding MBean lately and I'm a little lost > > about what are the new functionality that Catalina will have. Could > > somebody explain what MBean are ( and for what they are useful ) or give > > some directives, where I can read about ? ( I know there is plenty of > > material about Message Beans in J2EE but I imagine these MBeans for Tomcat > > are somehow different, aren't they ? ) > > > > The "MBean" that is referred to here is a "managed bean" from the Java > Management Extensions (JMX) APIs. You can read about it (and get the > spec) from . > > The basic idea is that each component object within Catalina (Engine, > Host, Context, Valve, Logger, Realm, and so on) has a corresponding MBean > through which it can be created, configured, and removed on-the-fly. In > addition, the JMX APIs have the notion of being able to save the > configuration state in such a way that it can be reused the next time you > start up the server. > > For Tomcat, we're using the JMX APIs in the administration webapp that > will, when it's done, let you never have to touch the server.xml file > again -- all of the configuration can be done interactively through a > tool. The fact that we're doing it all through MBeans also means that > managing a Tomcat 4 instance can also be easily built in to any other > management tool that knows how to speak JMX. > > > Thanks for the patience > > Renato. > > > > Craig McClanahan > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > For additional commands, e-mail: > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: