jmx4r 0.1.0 Is Released

October 22, 2009

jmx4r 0.1.0 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).

fixed compatibility with Rake 0.8.7 (thanks Dan!)
fixed dynamic mbean issues where attributes and methods were added to all the dynamic mbeans in the thread (thanks Munesse!)

There is also two new features:

support for Java CamelCase style in addition to Ruby snake_case (thanks again to Dan)

logging = JMX::MBean.find_by_name "java.util.logging:type=Logging"

# Ruby syntax works
logging.set_logger_level "global", "FINEST"
# Java syntax works too
logging.setLoggerLevel "global", "FINEST"

Connection to a local JVM (thanks to Mr ohtsuka). You can now connect to a JVM running on the same machine without adding the com.sun.management.jmxremote system properties.

For example, start an instance of jconsole without any additional system properties:

$ jconsole &

You can now manage this Java application locally:

require 'rubygems'
require 'jmx4r'

# :command is a regexp corresponding to the Java process to connect to
JMX::MBean.establish_connection :command => /JConsole/
memory = JMX::MBean.find_by_name "java.lang:type=Memory"
memory.gc

In addition to the previous :host, :port and :url arguments that you can pass to establish a JMX connection, there is now :command which must be a regular expression corresponding to the local Java process you want to connect to. You can find the name of the process using jps:

$ jps
4255 JConsole
4395 Jps

You can connect to a local Java application running on Java 5 or 6. Is someone interested to contribute support for JDK7 too?

Once again, thanks to all the contributors and users who help make jmx4r even more useful!

As usual, to get this new release, just update the rubygem:

jruby -S gem install jmx4r

and do not hesitate to contribute:

git clone git://github.com/jmesnil/jmx4r.git