Change @ManagedResource objectName dynamically

Question

I am creating prototype beans programatically/dynamically. I want those beans after initiation to be in the jmx console. How I can distinguish between them? I am using anota

Answer 1

You can use a a JMX naming strategy to do this. At work we use an interface:

public interface RuntimeJmxNames {
    /** this is the name= part of the object name */
    public String getJmxName();
    /** this sets the folders as 00=FirstFolder,01=Second */
    public String[] getJmxPath();
}

I've posted the code to implement the RuntimeMetadataNamingStrategy naming strategy.

And then something like the following Spring beans:

In your code you do something like:

@ManagedResource(objectName = "foo.com:name=replaced", description = "...")
public class Foo implements RuntimeJmxNames {
    ...
    public String getJmxName() {
        // here's where you can make the name be dynamic
        return toString();
    }
    @Override
    public String[] getJmxPath() {
        return new String[] { "folder" };
    }
}

Here's the Spring documentation on JMX naming although I'm not 100% sure it covers the custom naming stuff.

Also, my SimpleJMX package does a this as well. It uses a JmxSelfNaming interface which allows each instance of an object to define it's own bean-name to make them unique and works well with Spring.