Jeff Mesnil’s Weblog

From Tim Koopmans:

After getting nowhere with lack luster HP support, I turned to the power of the Open Source community and got a very simple script up and running to remotely monitor Weblogic JVM Performance and JMS queues using JMX and JRuby.

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This script will […]

jmx4r 0.0.5 has just been released (jmx4r is a JRuby library which makes it super easy to write simple Ruby scripts to manage Java applications using JMX).

There is only one enhancement to this release but it is an important one: you can now specify a custom JMX URL to connect to a MBean Server.

Before this […]

I use Subversion for my daily work (and CVS before that) but I’ve never used a distributed VCS before. One of my ex-colleagues, Marc, explained to me all the advantages of these systems but I never took the time to play with them. With all the increasing noise about Git and Mercurial, I’m now curious to learn […]

jmx4r 0.0.4 has just been released. jmx4r is a JRuby library which makes it super easy to write simple Ruby scripts to manage Java applications using JMX.

To get this new release, just update the rubygem: jruby -S gem install jmx4r

All contributions to this new release were done by Skaar:

CompositeData behave like regular read-only Ruby Hash custom classes […]

Something which is not obvious with the way jmx4r leverages JMX API and Ruby metaprogramming is that you can write simple scripts to manage a Java application without any dependency on the MBeans exposed by the application.

For simplicity, in my examples I always use MBeans exposed by the JVM but jmx4r works with any MBean […]