One curiosity about Model MBeans is that attributes also appear
as operations. Is there any way to avoid that?
We encounter this question occasionally, most recently in the
JMX
forum on SDN. As the contributor there notes, this is
tracked as RFE
6339571, but won't be implemented until Java SE 7. What
can you do in the mean time?
In order to define an attribute, say...
One of the features planned for version 2.0 of the JMX API
is cascading, also known as federation.
Here's what it is, and how you can build a simplified form of
the same thing without waiting for 2.0.
Update: a subset of the Java DMK product has been released as open source. Daniel Fuchs explains how to use the Cascading API from Open DMK. I would recommend using this in...