MBeans and Tomcat: A HOWTO Guide for Managing YOUR ApplicationBackground Java Management Extensions (JMX) is a standard for managing and monitoring applications and services. As a specification, JMX offers developers the ability to manage and monitor their application in a vendor-neutral (standard) fashion. The abstraction that JMX offers is similar to the abstractions of JDBC and EJB: most of the coding is vendor-neutral, and only the deployment descriptors
