Patent ID: 7509413

Claim:
A method for displaying JMX monitoring information, comprising: receiving a request for a web page containing the status of a plurality of system components; calling a first servlet operable to: generate a plurality of image tags, each corresponding to one of the components and pointing to an instance of a second servlet, each image tag comprising information to perform a JMX query; and generate an HTML file comprising the plurality of image tags; loading in a web browser the web page based on the HTML file; transmitting requests to the instances of the second servlet substantially in parallel for images represented by each image tag; and for each instance of the second servlet: performing a JMX query based upon the information within the image tag; receiving a response from the JMX query, the response including a value representative of the status of the corresponding component; generating an image comprising the returned value; transmitting the image to the browser; and displaying the image; wherein displaying the image of a returned value representing the status of a corresponding component is not dependent upon the display of the image of a returned value representing the status of any other component.