<!doctype html public "-//IETF//DTD HTML/EN"><html><head><!--   Copyright (c) 2004, 2007, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.  This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as published by the Free Software Foundation.  Oracle designates this particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.  This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code).  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.  Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any questions.  --></head><body bgcolor="white"><p>Provides classes for monitoring instrumented HotSpot Java Virtual Machines.</p><p>The classes in this package provide abstractions for:</p><p><ul>   <li><p>Identifying monitorable hosts and Java Virtual Machines.</p></li>   <li><p>Monitoring the creation and destruction of instrumented          Java Virtual Machines on local and remote hosts.</p></li>   <li><p>Discovering and Monitoring instrumentation exported by an          instrumented Java Virtual Machine.</p></li></ul></p><p>The {@link sun.jvmstat.monitor.MonitoredHost} class provides theinterface to acquire concrete implementations for discovering instrumentedJava Virtual Machines on a specific host. It serves a factory for creatingMonitoredHost instances for specific hosts and for creating{@link sun.jvmstat.monitor.MonitoredVm} instances for specificinstrumented Java Virtual Machines on those hosts.</p><p>The {@link sun.jvmstat.monitor.MonitoredVm} instances provide aninterface for discovery of instrumentation objects and the{@link sun.jvmstat.monitor.Monitor} interfaces provide a mechanismfor monitoring the instrumentation exported by a JVM.</p></body></html>