as your english, I’ll answer this way

At first, thanks a lot for the reply and the additional input on this topic

I’d be happy to read through your weblog on this topic, but for the background on this, I’m working in the EAI are and we’re moving from proprietary management towards JMX based management as part of the overall plattform strategy.

When poking around on the net, I mostly found pretty low-level information on how to actually code MBeans, etc. and pretty high-level stuff on the topic.

What I am actually missing, is something more practical like how to operate some bigger plattform, considering topics like:
- start/stop time/dates
- monitoring jms sizes
- reporting system status/configuration

Stuff like that I know that everyhting can be coded by using some MBean or another, but there seems to be lack somehow on getting stuff together .. maybe something worth writing

It looks like the German Wikipedia page has also some mistakes - for instance what’s new in Java SE 6 is that you can dynamically start the default JMX agent in a running JVM, using the ‘Attach API’, and also that Java SE 6 introduces MXBeans.
Communication between processes is supported since JMX Remote API 1.0 (JSR 160) - which can run on top of JDK 1,4 and was already included in Java SE 5.0 (that’s how JConsole can talk to your JVM).

You will find some information and pointers about JMX on my own blog (including overview of the technology, pointers to tutorials etc…) at:
JMX, SNMP, Java,etc…: http://blogs.sun.com/jmxetc.

Hope this helps,

– daniel
BTW: Ich kann Deutsch lesen, aber leider nicht schreiben