can JMX be used for beans configuration ?

[ndeloof]

Hello,

I used to configure my application using a .properties file (outside the war/ear) that can be customized and reloaded at runtime. Application beans use the commons-configuration interface to get conf datas.

I'd like to use D.I. for those datas : use Spring to set initial value and JMX to reconfigure beans at runtime. This sounds great, but this requires to make new values persistent.

JMX defines a "persist" property on MBeans, but I haven't found a good tutorial too understand it's use. Is there a "standard" way to use the persit capability of MBeans and can I use it as a replacement / complement to properties files ?

Nico.

[Costin Leau]

This has been discussed several times on this forum (do a search for more info). Basically, Spring JMX adds the JMX layer but it is not a JMX implementation - the underlying impl. takes care of the JMX details like persist. AFAIK, mx4j nor the jdk's jmx impl. do not offer any support for the persist attribute - I think there are some commercial ones that add support for it though I'm not sure.