The ManagementFactory class is a factory class for getting managed beans for the Java platform.

  The ManagementFactory class is a factory class for getting managed beans for the Java platform. This class consists of static methods each of which returns one or more platform MXBean(s) representing the management interface of a component of the Java virtual machine.

An application can access a platform MXBean in the following ways:

• Direct access to an MXBean interface
  1. Get the MXBean instance through the static factory method and access the MXBean locally of the running virtual machine.
  2. Construct an MXBean proxy instance that forwards the method calls to a given MBeanServer by calling newPlatfromMXBeanProxy. A proxy is typically constructed to remotely access an MXBean of another running virtual machine.
• Indirect access to an MXBean interface via MBeanServer
  1. Go through the platform MBeanServer to access MXBeans locally or a specific MBeanServerConnection to access MXBeans remotely. The attributes and operations of an MXBean use only JMX open types which include basic data types, CompositeData, and TabularData defined in OpenType. The mapping is specified below.

Platform MXBeans

A platform MXBean is a managed bean that conforms to the JMX Instrumentation Specification and only uses a set of basic data types described below. See the specification of MXBeans for details. A JMX management application and the platform MBeanServer can interoperate without requiring classes for MXBean specific data types. The data types being transmitted between the JMX connector server and the connector client are open types and this allows interoperation across versions.

The platform MXBean interfaces use only the following data types:

• Primitive types such as int, long, boolean, etc
• Wrapper classes for primitive types such as Integer, Long, Boolean, etc and String
• Enum classes
• Classes that define only getter methods and define a static from method with a CompositeData argument to convert from an input CompositeData to an instance of that class
• List<E> where E is a primitive type, a wrapper class, an enum class, or a class supporting conversion from a CompositeData to its class
• Map<K,V> where K and V are a primitive type, a wrapper class, an enum class, or a class supporting conversion from a CompositeData to its class

When an attribute or operation of a platform MXBean is accessed via an MBeanServer, the data types are mapped as follows:

• A primitive type or a wrapper class is mapped to the same type.
• An Enum is mapped to String whose value is the name of the enum constant.
• A class that defines only getter methods and a static from method with a CompositeData argument is mapped to CompositeData.
• Map<K,V> is mapped to TabularData whose row type is a CompositeType with two items whose names are "key" and "value" and the item types are the corresponding mapped type of K and V respectively and the "key" is the index.
• List<E> is mapped to an array with the mapped type of E as the element type.
• An array of element type E is mapped to an array of the same dimenions with the mapped type of E as the element type.

The MBeanInfo for a platform MXBean describes the data types of the attributes and operations as primitive or open types mapped as specified above.

For example, the MemoryMXBean interface has the following getter and setter methods:

 public MemoryUsage getHeapMemoryUsage();
 public boolean isVerbose();
 public void setVerbose(boolean value);
 

These attributes in the MBeanInfo of the MemoryMXBean have the following names and types:

Attribute Name	Type
HeapMemoryUsage	CompositeData representing MemoryUsage
Verbose	boolean

MXBean Names

Each platform MXBean for a Java virtual machine has a unique ObjectName for registration in the platform MBeanServer. A Java virtual machine has a single instance of the following management interfaces:

Management Interface	ObjectName
ClassLoadingMXBean	java.lang:type=ClassLoading
MemoryMXBean	java.lang:type=Memory
ThreadMXBean	java.lang:type=Threading
RuntimeMXBean	java.lang:type=Runtime
OperatingSystemMXBean	java.lang:type=OperatingSystem

A Java virtual machine has zero or a single instance of the following management interfaces.

Management Interface	ObjectName
CompilationMXBean	java.lang:type=Compilation

A Java virtual machine may have one or more instances of the following management interfaces.

Management Interface	ObjectName
GarbageCollectorMXBean	java.lang:type=GarbageCollector,name=collector's name
MemoryManagerMXBean	java.lang:type=MemoryManager,name=manager's name
MemoryPoolMXBean	java.lang:type=MemoryPool,name=pool's name