The sources in the JMX project cover the Java Management Extensions
(JMX) API, which is a standard Java API for
management and monitoring of resources such as applications, devices,
services, and the Java virtual machine. In this tutorial, we examine
the JMX project in the IDE and learn what we can do with it.
Building the JMX Sources
To build the JMX sources, right-click the JMX project in the
Projects window and choose Build Project. The IDE runs the Ant script for the project and shows
output in the Output window.
To view the build results, go to the Favorites window (Ctrl-3)
and browse to the "j2se" folder. Once you have added the folder,
you can see the newly created "build" and "dist" folders,
the latter containing your build output, as shown in the following image:
Generating JMX Javadoc
When you want to access JMX programmatically,
you can do so via the JMX API. Before you do so,
you can generate the JMX Javadoc. Right-click the
JMX project and choose Generate Javadoc for Project.
The IDE's browser appears, displaying the generated Javadoc:
In the Favorites window (Ctrl-3), you can browse to
the Javadoc files, which are generated to the
j2se/build/${platform}/javadoc/jmx
folder, as shown below:
Testing the JMX Sources
Set up the jtreg test framework, as explained
in Getting Started with OpenJDK in NetBeans IDE.
Once you have set up jtreg, you can right-click
a project in the IDE and choose Test Project. Alternatively, you can
right-click an individual file and choose Run File. The latter runs a
jtreg test on an individual file. jtreg prints summary output about the pass/fail nature
of each test. HTML files with the results are written to the jtreg
folder within the j2se/build folder.
For example, the errors.html file produces content such
as the following:
