AOP and JMX: A match made in heaven

You're winding down a project and you get that dreaded email from your project manager, "How hard would it be to add some performance monitoring to the system?" Well, after this session, you'll be able to respond, "No problem at all!" It turns out that with a pinch of AOP and a dash of JMX, you can introduce amazing management and monitoring capabilities without changing your mainline code one bit.

In this session, we explore the technologies of AOP and JMX and how they can be used together to transparently add management and monitoring in a completely non-invasive way. We'll explore some of the various AOP packages including Spring AOP and AspectJ and how they can be used to apply management and monitoring inline to an application. Once we've added this functionality we'll how to expose it using JMX using Spring's JMX support and consume it using JConsole or Spring.

If you're tentative about introducing AOP or JMX into your application, come take a look at some of the cool things you can do with them and how easy it can be.

About Ben Hale

Ben Hale is a senior software engineer with Springsource and a core developer on the SpringSource dm Server project. Ben specializes in middleware development with using technologies such as OSGi and Aspect Oriented Programming as well as directing the build and release processes for all products in the Spring and SpringSource portfolios.

His interests include middle-tier architecture and effective build and release management strategies.

Prior to joining SpringSource, Ben spent several years leading teams in architecture and development of large-scale enterprise management applications for the telecommunications industry.

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