The Java Platform Standard Edition provides comprehensive monitoring and management support for the Java platform.
Java SE includes the following APIs for monitoring and management:
- Enables monitoring and managing the Java virtual machine and the
underlying operating system. The API enables applications to
monitor themselves and enables JMX-compliant tools to monitor and
manage a virtual machine locally and remotely.
- Oracle's platform extension to the
java.lang.management API and the management interface for
some other components of the platform.
API - Oracle's platform extension that allows a
management agent to be dynamically loaded into a virtual
JConsole API - platform extension that
provides a programmatic interface to access JConsole such as adding
a JConsole plugin. JTop is an example JConsole plugin available at