Helena Edelson

If you just want to easily export mbeans to jconsole or an external profiling tool this is pretty sweet:

I. Create a Spring schema config file for JMX

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd">

<!-- This bean needs to be eagerly pre-instantiated in order for the exporting to occur: -->
<!-- ***************** Autodetects Annotated Beans JMX Exposure *********************** -->
<bean id="annotationalMbeanExporter" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter" lazy-init="false">
<property name="autodetect" value="true"/>
<property name="namingStrategy" ref="namingStrategy"/>
<property name="assembler" ref="assembler"/>
<!-- one of many optional config options -->
<property name="registrationBehaviorName" value="REGISTRATION_IGNORE_EXISTING"/>
</bean>
<bean id="attributeSource" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.annotation.AnnotationJmxAttributeSource"/>
<bean id="assembler" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.assembler.MetadataMBeanInfoAssembler">
<property name="attributeSource" ref="attributeSource"/>
</bean>
<bean id="namingStrategy" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.naming.MetadataNamingStrategy">
<property name="attributeSource" ref="attributeSource"/>
</bean>
</beans>

II. Annotate a component, bean, etc

@Service
@ManagedResource(objectName = "bean:name=applicationMonitor")
public class ClientMBeanService implements IClientMBeanService {

@ManagedOperation(description = "Monitor the JMS broker")
public BrokerStatistics exposeBroker() {
return new BrokerDelegate().exposeMBean();
}
}

@Component
@ManagedResource(objectName = "spring:name=broker", description = "ActimemMQ Broker")
public class BrokerStatistics {

private String brokerId;
private String brokerName;
private long totalMessages;
private long totalConsumers;
private long totalTopics;
private long totalQueues;
private List<Map> topics;
private List<Map> queues;

@ManagedAttribute
public String getBrokerId() {
return brokerId;
}
...etc
}

The annotational configuration in the mbean exporter allows automatic registration and mbean creation of beans. It’s that simple.