What I am doing during free time ??? Learn about Instrumentation in Java :-)

Better late than never !!! Finally I got chance to learn and experiment with instrumentation in Java. Started discussing with friends on this topic and got some good information:

Instrumentation....JMX and SNMP are the two methods commonly used.Here is a good comparision (http://blogs.sun.com/jmxetc/entry/jmx_vs_snmp)]

----Tutorial on JMX : http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jmx/

---- Tutorial on SNMP : http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/management/SNMP.html

and there's a neat and good stuff to try out one area of instrumentation - profiling using netbean's profiler.

http://www.netbeans.org/community/magazine/html/04/profiler.html

( make sure u do run this in a hig-end machine, as it eats quite some memory)

Netbeans site also has a good write-up on using JMX: http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/jmx-tutorial.html

I found this article on Profiling quite good:

http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/391/viswanathan.html


I will add more stuff on this, as I work on this.