As you'll no doubt have read elsewhere,
the Mustang Beta Release is now available. There are
plenty of improvements in plenty of areas, including the JMX
API.
The improvements to the JMX API are incremental changes to
existing functionality, rather than entirely new features. The
new features will arrive in Dolphin (Java SE 7), as defined by
JSR 255. (...
One of the important new features of the JMX API in Mustang
(Java SE 6) is the ability to create MXBeans. MXBeans
provide a convenient way to bundle related values together
without requiring clients to be specially configured to handle
the bundles. Here's the complete story about MXBeans.
Bundles of values
When you are designing an MBean, you sometimes...