Andy \"Mad\" Schaefer wrote:
> I delved a little bit in jBoss Server code and discovered that you use
> java.lang.reflect.Proxy to create dynamic Proxy classes for a given
> Interface.
> Before this I always thought that it is impossible to create a Proxy class
> on the JMX client side to deal with the remote MBeans without dealing
> with JMX Connector etc.
And it is indeed impossible, generally speaking.
> But know the problem is that JMX does not send Interfaces to the client
> but a JMX structure to reflect the MBeans on the server-side.
Exactly.
> NOW my question is how to create an Interface on the client-side to
> create from this Interface the Proxy class or is there a way to create a
> proxy without an Interface?
The only way I can think of is to create the byte array for the class,
and convert it to a class dynamically.
> The problem with JMX is that only standard MBeans have to implement
> an Interface but for the other types there is no interface.
Exactly. And while we have used standard MBeans so far, I believe we
will switch to at least dynamic MBeans fairly soon.
> If this is doable I will change the JMX Connector on the client-side
> therefore
> that the client see the Proxy-Objects and deal with them instead of the
> MBeanServer interface. What do you think?
I think you should stick with the MBeanServer interface. I don't think
there is enough value in doing explicit proxy objects with these
methods, since the code to access the MBeanServer in the client is
generic enough anyway.
regards,
Rickard
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