Monitoring system for distributed java applications

Abstract

The paper presents a concept of an implementation of an extension to the On-Line Monitoring Interface Specification for Java Applications. The extension aims at defining an open interface for providing on-line software development tools. The general-purpose, portable, and extensible approach to handle comprehensive monitoring information from a Java run-time environment is intended to span the existing gap between the needs in Java application development tools and the lack of a uniform environment which provides monitoring support for different kinds of tools, like debuggers or performance analysers. The main goal of the resulting monitoring system is to adapt existing tools and build new ones for monitoring Java distributed applications. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002.