MBean definition

Java Management Extensions (JMX) is a Java technology that supplies tools for managing and monitoring applications, system objects, devices (e.g. printers) and service oriented networks. Those resources are represented by objects called MBeans (for Managed Bean).

MBean is a type of JavaBean, created with dependency injection. The MBean represents a resource running in the Java Virtual Machine such as an application, a J2EE technical service (transactional monitor, JDBC driver, ...), ... They can be used for getting and setting applications configuration (pull), for collecting statistics (pull) (e.g. performance, resources usage, problems, ...) and notifying events (push) (e.g. faults, state changes, ...)