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Chapter 14
User-Defined MXBeans
Mustang ships with the reference implementation for the Java Management Extensions (JMX) 1.4. New to this version of JMX are user-defined MXBeans, even though standard MXBeans have actually been part of the Java SE since the Tiger era. This chapter teaches you how to write user-defined MXBeans as well as explains the annotation types @MXBean and @DescriptorKey. An introduction to JMX and standard MBeans, sisters of MXBeans, are also presented at the beginning of this chapter for those new to the technology.