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<author email="amyroh@apache.org">Amy Roh</author>
<title>MBeans Descriptors How To</title>
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<section name="Table of Contents">
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<section name="Introduction">
<p>Tomcat uses JMX MBeans as the technology for implementing
manageability of Tomcat.</p>
<p>The descriptions of JMX MBeans for Catalina are in the mbeans-descriptors.xml
file in each package.</p>
<p>You will need to add MBean descriptions for your custom components
in order to avoid a "ManagedBean is not found" exception.</p>
</section>
<section name="Adding MBean descriptions">
<p>You may also add MBean descriptions for custom components in
a mbeans-descriptors.xml file, located in the same package as the class files
it describes.</p>
<source><![CDATA[ <mbean name="LDAPRealm"
className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.ClassNameMBean"
description="Custom LDAPRealm"
domain="Catalina"
group="Realm"
type="com.myfirm.mypackage.LDAPRealm">
<attribute name="className"
description="Fully qualified class name of the managed object"
type="java.lang.String"
writeable="false"/>
<attribute name="debug"
description="The debugging detail level for this component"
type="int"/>
.
.
.
</mbean>]]></source>
</section>
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