Java CAPS Management and Monitoring APIs

This topic provides information on common management and monitoring tasks. The management and monitoring APIs are not installed during the Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) installation; they are packaged as EM_API_KIT.zip. This ZIP file is on ESB_API_Kit.zip. You need to extract EM_API_KIT.zip to your root Java CAPS 6 installation directory. If you extract the file to another directory you need to set the JAVA_HOME, JAVA_CAPS, and the ENGINE_HOME environment variables in env.bat. For information on how to do this, see To Modify the Environment Variables in env.bat. Also included with the ZIP file are JavaDocs, Java samples, and Groovy scripting samples that demonstrate how to use the APIs.

If you have any questions or problems, see the Java CAPS Support web site at http://goldstar.stc.com/support.

Tip - To access all the Java CAPS documentation in HTML format on the Sun Developer Network (SDN) web site, go to http://developers.sun.com/docs/javacaps/.

You can also access the Java CAPS documentation on the SDN web site by clicking the HELP tab in Enterprise Manager.

The HELP tab in the Java CAPS Uploader opens the “Installing Java CAPS Components Using the Java CAPS Uploader” topic.

What You Need to Know

• Java CAPS Management Client

• Getting Started Using APIs

• Connecting to the Server Through APIs

• The Alert Management API

• Services -- JavaCAPSManagementAPI

• Writing Java Code to Access APIs Using Java Code Samples

• Setting Up Databases

• Using Oracle and Other Databases for Alert Persistence

• Setting Up Scripting Engines

You expose management and monitoring using:

• A common API

  The client API kit is installable from the Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) Installer and is packaged along with the Groovy scripting engine, Groovy libraries, and samples.

• JSR 223 Scripting

  All management capabilities are exercisable from any language that supports JSR 223 scripting for the Java platform. Currently this includes 25 different scripting languages, including Groovy, JRuby, Jython, JACL, etc.

• Sun Java System Application Server Admin Console

  All JBI administration use-cases are built into the Sun Java System Application Server Admin Console. This enables administrators to administer their domain runtimes and components remotely using a browser.

• Command-line interface

  The AS Admin command-line interface that comes with the Sun Java System Application Server enables you to manager your application server environment. All JBI administration use-cases have been integrated into the AS Admin command-line interface. In addition, the command-line interface that used to manage non-JBI components is also available for you to use.

• Ant

  asant enables you to run ant scripts on the Sun Java System Application Server. All JBI administration use-cases have been integrated into the Sun Java System Application Server's asant, and are available to exercise though any ant scripting that is available to you.

• Java CAPS Enterprise Manager

  Use Enterprise Manager to remotely to administer your non-JBI based components.

• NetBeans Administration plugins

  The JBI Manager that comes with NetBeans IDE enables developers to manage the JBI runtimes component containers and composite applications. The Composite Application Project System (CASA) enables developers to deploy and manage lifecycle operations during development.