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JavaOne next week!

Next week is JavaOne 2008! I'll be speaking there with Jean-François Denise, about upcoming developments in JMX technology. Here are some of the other sessions you might want to attend if you're interested in that.

• BOF-5552, "Java Observability by Bytecode Instrumentation", K Balasubramainan and A Sunararajan, Tuesday 7:30pm, Esplanade 300.

  How to attach to an already-running JVM and insert instrumentation code into it. Not necessarily directly related to the JMX world but of interest nevertheless.

• TS-5199, "JMX Technology Update", E McManus and J-F Denise, Wednesday 4:10pm, Esplanade 304/306.

  That's us! I'll be talking about some of the changes to the JMX API being planned in JSR 255, and Jean-François will be talking about the Web Services Connector being designed in JSR 262.

• BOF-5698, "Practical JMX Security Options", J Gould and D Smith, Wednesday 6:30pm, Hall E 134.

  Although we've put a lot of effort into make JMX technology secure, it's always possible to get your configuration wrong and leave yourself inadvertently open. It looks as if this BOF will show some good ways to avoid that.

• LAB-1430LT, "Java Hotspot VM Trouble Shooting Tools in a Nutshell", M Li and J Shen, Thursday 12:30pm--2:30pm, Hall E 132.

  This hands-on lab is full but you might be able to sneak in. It promises to show you how to use JConsole, jps, jmap, jhat, and hprof.

• TS-6145, "Using DTrace with Java Applications: Bridging the Observability Gap", J Haslam and S Ritter, Thursday 1:30pm and Friday 2:50pm, North Mtg 121.

  DTrace is an excellent piece of technology that allows you to add probes to an application and summarize the data they provide, by writing scripts in a special language. The application itself doesn't need to be modified to add the probes. DTrace is available on Solaris 10 and on Mac OS X Leopard, at least.

• BOF-4945, "Designing Manageable Java EE Applications in a Clustered Environment", J Jensen and P Kristiansson, Thursday 7:30pm, Hall E 134.

  This looks to be a very interesting BOF for JMX weenies. The presenters are from a telecoms background but their abstract promises broad applicability.

• BOF-5223, "VisualVM: Integrated and Extensible Troubleshooting Tool for the Java Platform", L-M Alventosa and Tomas Hurka, Thursday 7:30pm, Gateway 104.

  If you haven't seen the excellent VisualVM tool, this is the occasion to discover it. A simplistic way to describe it is that it is like JConsole but with added support for CPU profiling and heap walking, and the ability to download plugins from a plugin centre. Unfortunately this BOF clashes with the previous one.

• TS-6028, "Near-Real-Time Distributed Enterprise Infrastructure for Traffic Data Collection...", J Carroll and B Smyth, Friday 2:50pm, Hall E 134.

  The JMX API is just one of a bunch of APIs mentioned in the abstract so I don't expect it to be the focus of the talk, but the subject looks pretty interesting anyway.

In addition to all that, Sun's Pod 136 in the Pavilion area will be staffed by JMX experts a lot of the time. Catch me there on Wednesday and Thursday from 11:15am to 2pm. Jean-François is likely to be around then too, if you have Web Services Connector questions. And Luis-Miguel Alventosa will be there in the same time-slot on Tuesday and Wednesday if you have questions or comments about JConsole or VisualVM.

See you there!

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Comments

• Hi, Really interesting items ...is it possible to find some public docs? is it possible to use future jmx 2.0 specification on tiger? thanks in advance

  Posted by: lukebike on May 12, 2008 at 11:28 PM

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