Sun’s JConsole monitoring tool is included with the Java Developers Kit 5.0. It leverages the Java virtual machine’s comprehensive instrumentation to deliver real-time information on resource ...

Java Mission Control can monitor an MBeans server for live monitoring ... provides embedded access to the Java Diagnostic Command tool jcmd. Developers can use it to execute a variety of VM operations ...

JDK 5.0 and JDK 6.0 include the Java Monitoring & Management Console tool, also known as JConsole. Read about JConsole's usage options, and find out how JConsole changed from JDK 5 to JDK 6.