Gmbal

## The GlassFish MBean Annotation Library (GMBAL)

Gmbal is a new library for adding GlassFish v3 AMX-compliant MBeans to GlassFish v3 components. It may be used either as part of GlassFish v3, or standalone for providing an MBean-based management interface to any Java application. This is important because a number of modules that are used in GlassFish v3 are also used independently of GlassFish (e.g. Metro in OpenSSO). Because of this, Gmbal also runs on Java 5, while GlassFish v3 requires Java 6.
Available documentation for the gmbal project includes:

- An introductory presentation "Gmbal: Annotations for JMX" which discusses the background and assumptions of gmbal, and shows screen shots of jconsole accessing MBeans on a version of the GlassFish ORB
- The functional specification.
- JavaDocs (generated when the project is built).