Patent ID: 8539566

Claim:
A method for monitoring a managed resource, comprising: establishing a subscription to a broadcast notification associated with the managed resource, wherein the establishing comprises: creating a user interface (UI) component in a client application to subscribe to a Java Management Extensions (JMX) broadcast notification associated with the managed resource; receiving, at the client application, during the creating, a JMX managed object name, wherein the JMX managed object name identifies a JMX message topic associated with the managed resource; generating, by a JMX broadcaster, a message destined for the UI component; creating a JMX managed bean (JMX MBean) in a JMX server, the JMX MBean representing the managed resource for the UI component; subscribing the JMX MBean to the JMX broadcaster, wherein the subscribing comprises receiving one or more filter values identifying the UI component; and configuring the UI component to be a consumer of the JMX message topic identified by the JMX managed object name, wherein the JMX message topic is associated with the JMX MBean.