JEP review : JDK-8171311 - REST APIs for JMX

[Kirk Pepperdine]

Hi,

Have you run into this project? https://jolokia.org. Unfortunately it’s not exactly a drop in replacement for the standard RMI based JMX connector but it’s not far off.

Kind regards,
Kirk

> On Sep 5, 2017, at 6:30 PM, Erik Gahlin <erik.gahlin at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Harsha,
> 
> Looping in jmx-dev.
> 
> > byte[], short[], int[], float[], double[]
> 
> Should long[] be included there as well?
> 
> > The REST adapter will come with a simple and lightweight JSON parser.
> 
> Is this an internal parser or will it be exposed as an API?
> 
> If so, how does it relate to JEP 198: Light-Weight JSON API?
> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/198
> 
> Will com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpServer be used to serve the requests?
> 
> Thanks
> Erik
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Please review the JEP for REST APIs for JMX :
>>        https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8171311
>> 
>> The JEP aims at providing RESTful web interfaces to MBeans.
>> 
>> Access to MBeans registered in a MBeanServer running inside a JVM requires a Java client. Language-agnostic access to MBeans will require spawning a Java client which can be cumbersome. The proposed JEP allows MBeans to be accessed in a language/platform-independent, ubiquitous and seamless manner.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> -Harsha
>> 
>> 
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