Monitoring Java Programs

Hi,

I'm running several stand-alone java programs as batch files, each doing a specific job. I want to monitor from a centralized place that all are running or not. Any suggestions how do I do it?

Thanks in advance,

Rgds,
indgsk

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Thanks and Regards,
Sakthi

A few years ago I made something like this myself. I wrote a class that started a thread to listen on a TCP/IP port. Each of the processes to be monitored started this thread (each using a different TCP/IP port, ofcourse). The monitoring program could connect to that port and send some simple commands (with a very small application protocol that I invented myself) to see if the program was running and to get some statistics.

If I'd have to do something like that now, I'd probably use JConsole and program a few MBeans into my application. JConsole is a tool added in Java 5.0 to monitor applications: Using JConsole to Monitor Applications.
[ November 09, 2006: Message edited by: Jesper Young ]