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Preface

The Java Management Extensions (JMX) Technology Tutorial provides examples of how to use the main features of the JMX technology that is provided with the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE).

Before You Read This Book

The Java Management Extensions (JMX) Technology Tutorial demonstrates the concepts and technology that are introduced in the Java Management Extensions (JMX) Technology Overview. You should, therefore, read the overview before attempting to work through this tutorial. To make full use of the information in this tutorial, you should be familiar with the following protocols and specifications:

How This Book Is Organized

This tutorial provides examples in broad categories, presented in the following chapters.

Related Documentation

This tutorial is accompanied by the following documents:

About This Tutorial

As previously stated, this tutorial demonstrates some of the concepts that are described in the Java Management Extensions (JMX) Technology Overview. This tutorial is intended to be read in order, from beginning to end, working through the examples as you go. Actions you perform at the beginning of the tutorial might be required parts of subsequent examples. Consequently, starting mid-way through the tutorial might cause you to skip actions required by certain examples.

Where you are required to perform a task, the instructions are presented in bold text and marked with an action number; sub-tasks are marked with a lower-case letter, as shown in the following example:

  1. Perform a task.

    2. Description of how to perform that task.

    1. Perform a sub-task.

      2. Description of how to perform that sub-task.

  2. Perform another task.

    3. And so on

Typographic Conventions

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Examples
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The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output
 
Edit your .login file.
Use ls -a to list all files.
% You have mail.
AaBbCc123
What you type, when contrasted with on-screen computer output
 
% su
Password:
AaBbCc123
Book titles, new words or terms, words to be emphasized
 
 
Command-line variable; replace with a real name or value
Read Chapter 6 in the User’s Guide.
These are called class options.
You must be superuser to do this.
 
To delete a file, type rm filename.

Shell Prompts

Shell
Prompt
C shell
machine_name%
C shell superuser
machine_name#
Bourne shell and Korn shell
$
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser
#

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