using MBeanExporter with remote MBean server

[mindstream]

How do I use the MBeanExporter to register my management beans with a remote MBean server? I want to be able to use either 1) another running instance of my spring container that exposes a ConnectorServerFactoryBean using a specific url, or 2) a 3rd party instance running either on the same physical server or on a remote server on my network.

I thought that setting locateExistingServerIfPossible to true on the MBeanServerFactoryBean would find a running mbean server on my local machine, but maybe it just finds a running mbean server running in the same VM?

I'm sure I'm just missing something. Can someone enlighten me?

Thanks.

[mindstream]

just to clarify...

Basically, I want to register my MBeans with a central MBean server. I should have said that in the original post.

Does spring support this out of the box?

[qvark]

I had a similar problem and I couldn't solve it with the support provided out-of-the-box. In my case, I wanted to register notification listeners against a remote MBeanServer (see my previous post http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=27473 for details).

I think it is basically a design flaw in the Spring JMX support, because the MBeanRegistrationSupport use a MBeanServer interface, which is intended only for local MBeanServers. IMHO, it should use the javax.management.MBeanServerConnection interface (which is a superinterface of MBeanServer) and then it would allow operations over a local or remote MBeanServer. I ended up making my own registration class, because the MBeanExporter didn't allow me to register notification listeners without register MBeans...

The configuration looks like:

    <!-- Connector to the remote MBeanServer -->
    <bean id="mbeanServerProxy1" class="org.springframework.jmx.support.MBeanServerConnectionFactoryBean" lazy-init="false">
         <property name="serviceUrl" value="service:jmx:rmi://localhost/jndi/rmi://localhost:33333/IBJMXConnector"/>
    </bean>

    <!-- Bean that registers the JMX connector with the remote MBeanServer to listen notifications -->
    <bean id="listenersRegisterer" class="es.indra.ibuilder.jmx.notifications.RemoteNotificationListenerRegisterer">
        <property name="defaultServer">
			<ref bean="mbeanServerProxy1"/>        
        </property>
		<property name="notificationListeners">
			<list>
				<ref bean="jmxReadConnectorConfig"/>				
            </list>
        </property>        
    </bean>  
...

In your case you probably could rewrite the MBeanRegistrationSupport to use a MBeanServerConnection and then you should be able to use the MBeanExporter with remote MBeanServers. Something like:

    <!-- Connector to the remote MBeanServer -->
    <bean id="mbeanServerProxy1" class="org.springframework.jmx.support.MBeanServerConnectionFactoryBean" lazy-init="false">
         <property name="serviceUrl" value="service:jmx:rmi://localhost/jndi/rmi://localhost:33333/IBJMXConnector"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="jmxExporter" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter">
        <property name="server" ref="mbeanServerProxy1"/>
        <property name="beans">
...
    </bean>

Hope this helps,

Jose Luis.

[Isaac2001]

On you example you register notification listener on a remote server, exists any form that you can inject beans obtained from a client connector to a local(POJO)bean?