JMX4Ant

JMX4Ant


Welcome to the JMX4Ant. JMX4Ant is a set of optional Ant tasks that allows interactions with JMX MBeans.

Like many other programmers, I find Ant to be an extremely handy tool to use in automating away the daily drudgery of routine development tasks. In J2EE development, one kind of drudgery that I have a special dislike for is the creation and management of J2EE resources that my applications depend upon.

My motivation therefore was to provide tasks for J2EE resource creation and management from Ant that I use to build/deploy application. (e.g. create my JDBC pool and JMS queues/topics before I deploy my entity and message driven beans...), but the tasks are general enough for much broader use (i.e. general purpose J2EE server and application administration).

If you have questions, comments, or suggestions for improvements please feel free to contact me directly, or post to one of the JMX4Ant lists on Sourceforge.

Version 1.2 of JMX4Ant contains a number of important new features and some bug fixes as well. One of the most requested enhancements for JMX4Ant that is now part of v1.2 is support for WebLogic's Targets property, and addTarget method. This enhancement allows JMX4Ant to deploy and undeploy the resources that are created to a particular target server. For more information on v1.2 features, refer to the Change History section of this document.