The demo application. For this tour, you’ll need a Java JDK and Maven installed. We’ll start by creating a fresh application with a Maven archetype, like what’s shown in Listing 1.

In addition to comprehensive monitoring and application management support offered by J2SE 5.0, JDK 5.0 and JDK 6.0 include the Java Monitoring & Management Console tool, also known as JConsole.

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of deploying the open-source GlassFish Java Application server on the latest release of Ubuntu Server.

In JDK 5, Sun's Java Virtual Machine (JVM) has built-in instrumentation that allows you to find out what is going on internally in a currently executing application. However, the instrumentation ...