jademx - JMX access to JADE agents

jademx is an open source implementation of Java JMX access for JADE software agents. This allows a JADE agent to expose attributes, operations, and notifications in a JMX-compliant manner as a DynamicMBean, as well as providing a convenient method for deploying JADE agents (regardless of whether the JADE agents are jademx-aware), particularly in a J2EE environment. Also, jademx exposes predefined access to both the JADE platform and agents. Further, jademx easily enables the running of a JADE agent unit test under JUnit; the unit level is an ACL message.

jademx can be used with both J2SE and J2EE. jademx has so far been validated with JDK 1.5.0, WebLogic 8.1 SP4, and JBoss 4.0.2.

Although compiling jademx and running it directly under J2SE requires J2SE 5.0, jademx has been run successfully in J2EE environments using a Java virtual machine corresponding to JDK 1.4.1 and JMX 1.0. The supported configuration is expected to require J2SE 5.0 and JMX 1.2 in the future.