JMX Resolver for JSF -------------------- Key: JBAS-2595 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-2595 Project: JBoss Application Server Issue Type: Feature Request Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: Web (Tomcat) service Affects Versions: JBossAS-4.0.4RC1 Reporter: Stan Silvert Assignee: Stan Silvert Priority: Optional Fix For: JBossAS-5.1.0.CR1 The JMX resolver does for JMX what Seam is doing for EJB. That is, it provides a ?seam? for JMX and JSF. It allows you to map an MBean as a JSF managed bean. Then you can use attributes from JMX in any JSF component. The obvious use case for this is where you want to create a custom JMX console that only contains the attributes you are interested in. For example, I might want to monitor/modify the attributes for some DataSources and Tomcat threads all on a single JSP page. I would create a faces-config-jmx.xml file like this and place it in the WEB-INF directory: <faces-config-jmx> <managed-bean> <managed-bean-name>defaultDS</managed-bean-name> <jmx-object-name>jboss.jca:name=DefaultDS,service=ManagedConnectionPool</jmx-object-name> </managed-bean> <managed-bean> <managed-bean-name>foo</managed-bean-name> <jmx-object-name>Foo:name=Foo,type=XMBean</jmx-object-name> </managed-bean> </faces-config-jmx> To use this in a JSP page, I just use the managed bean name in my JSF component as usual: <h:form> <p> <h:outputText value="New DefaultDS maxSize: "/> <h:inputText value="#{defaultDS.MaxSize}" converter="javax.faces.Integer" /> <br/></br> <h:outputText value="New DefaultDS AvailableConnectionCount: "/> <h:outputText value="#{defaultDS.AvailableConnectionCount}" /> <br/><br/> <h:outputText value="Array access test for foo.myArray[2]: "/> <br/> <h:outputText value="Current value is: #{foo.myArray[2]}" /> <h:commandButton value="Submit"/> </p> </h:form> The mechanism to do JMX to JSF resolution will be installed automatically using the new JSF initialization specified here: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-2593 The application developer is only required to provide a faces-config-jmx.xml containing the mappings from managed bean names to JMX ObjectNames.