Ian is now prepared to correct my slightly warped presentation of our motivation, as soon as I send this for him to reply to.
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> wrote: > The MBean client API is kind of a pain in the neck. Talking RMI to > contact MBean servers on multiple machines is a really big pain in the > neck. > > If you were sitting down to create a webapp to visualize some > management data, you would perhaps rather write that code in terms of > a JSON-ish data model of the data. than in terms of the MBean API. > > So, our thought was to solve both problems: get rid of the RMI > business by having a service on each machine that exposed the data via > JAX-RS, and be able to code to a less annoying data model. > > One of my colleagues is likely to post some more specific thoughts > about what he hates about the MBean API. >
