Lucas McGregor is the CTO of Xdrive where he manages their architecture and technology. Over the years he has designed distributed management systems for tier-1 national ISPs, massive online gaming systems, and consulted on projects ranging from distributed intelligent agents to automated protein analysis. He is interested in the architecture of robust and manageable distributed systems.
The promise of J2EE was to build more robust, scalable, and secure enterprise
systems. J2EE promised that we could do it quickly and easily since J2EE is
supposed to take the complexity out of building powerful distributed systems.
But as with the J2EE spec itself, these systems usually suffer through
management only as an afterthought.
Many management systems focus on proprietary interfaces that react to
specific events. They offer solutions in which your management is tied up
with the system you are managing. JMX4ODP decouples testing and management
from the target system and focuses on using reusable components that are
bound and deployed using XML configurations.
This article walks you through the process of setting up a basic service
monitor and event handler for a... (more)
Lucas McGregor is the CTO of Xdrive where he manages their architecture and technology. Over the years he has designed distributed management systems for tier-1 national ISPs, massive online gaming systems, and consulted on projects ranging from distributed intelligent agents to 
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