JMX technology provides a component-based architecture for developing solutions to monitor and manage your services, resources and applications. JMX technology is the way to instrument any application or service that was built using Java technology. So that the Java platform now provides excellent facilities for creating and managing applications and services. JMX technology should be used for any application and service that benefit from being manageable, as this will increase their value to vendors and clients, by making them easier to configure, install and maintain. The recent version of JMX is 1.2, and the JMX 2.0 update was launched in September 2004. It will update the JMX and JMX Remote APIs to improve existing interfaces, mainly with respect to ease of use.

JMX tutorial provided a fast track introduction and overview of JMX architecture and its programming model. The examples provided demonstrates how easy it is to get started developing management and monitoring solutions using JMX technology. The J2SE 5.0 version implements the JMX specification— you are ready to start developing using JMX technology if you use J2SE 5.0.